title: Oflag VIII-E Johannisbrunn
text: # Oflag VIII-E Johannisbrunn
  
  Oflag VIII-E was a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp for Allied general officers (Offizierlager) located in Jánské Koupele (then Johannisbrunn) in German-occupied Czechoslovakia (now located in the Moravian–Silesian Region, Czech Republic).
  
  ## Camp history
  
  The camp, a former spa hotel, was opened in July 1940 and housed approximately 70 Allied generals and their aides. Among those officers imprisoned were 30 from Poland, 24 from France, 7 from the Netherlands, 6 from Belgium, 1 from the United Kingdom, and a Colonel from Norway. On April 27, 1942, all the Poles were transferred to other camps, mostly to Oflag VII-A Murnau. Soon after all the other prisoners were also transferred, and the camp was closed on 1 July 1942.
  
  ### Commandants
  
  * Oberst Hencker (29 October 1940 – 30 June 1941)
  * Generalmajor Johann Janusz (1 July 1941 – 19 May 1942)
  
  ## Notable prisoners
  
  A number of high-ranking officers were held in the camp, including:
  
  Polish
  
  Generał dywizji
  
  * Władysław Bortnowski
  * Tadeusz Kutrzeba
  * Juliusz Rómmel
  
  Generał brygady
  
  * Roman Abraham
  * Franciszek Alter
  * Władysław Boncza-Uzdowski
  * Leopold Cehak
  * Jan Chmurowicz
  * Walerian Czuma
  * Franciszek Dindorf-Ankowicz
  * Juliusz Drapella
  * Janusz Gąsiorowski
  * Edmund Knoll-Kownacki
  * Wincenty Kowalski
  * Józef Kwaciszewski
  * Stanislaw Malachowski
  * Czesław Młot-Fijałkowski
  * Zygmunt Piasecki
  * Wacław Piekarski
  * Zygmunt Podhorski
  * Zdzislaw Przyjalkowski
  * Jan Jagmin-Sadowski
  * Stanisław Taczak
  * Wiktor Thommée
  * Juliusz Zulauf
  
  Kontradmirał
  
  * Józef Unrug
  
  British
  
  * Brigadier Nigel FitzRoy Somerset (145th Infantry Brigade)
  
  Dutch
  
  * General Henri Gerard Winkelman, Commander-in-Chief Dutch Forces 1940
  