单词 | oflag |
释义 | Oflagn. Now historical. In Germany during the Second World War (1939–45): a prison camp for captured enemy officers. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > quartering > [noun] > camp for prisoners of war depot1803 cage1919 Oflag1940 Stalag1940 Stalag Luft1940 1940 Times 30 July 7/3 There are three types of camps for British prisoners known officially as Oflag, Stalag, and Dulag (contractions for Offizierslager, Stammlager, and Durchgangslager). 1941 P. G. Wodehouse Berlin Broadcasts in Performing Flea (1961) i. 261 An Oflag is where captured officers go. Stalags are reserved for N.C.O.s and privates. The civil internee gets the Ilag. 1958 P. Kemp No Colours or Crest xii. 265 Her husband..had been a prisoner of the Germans since 1939 in an Oflag in Posen. 1974 Times 12 Oct. 12/7 He found himself in Oflag IHA/H, a prisoner-of-war camp in Spannenburg. 1992 Independent 27 Apr. 27/2 After 15 months segregated with his brother officers in an Oflag, David Wild applied to be transferred to a Stalag. 2012 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Feb. 14/4 As a prisoner at a German Oflag who had neither notes or books at hand. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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