Stalag XXA in Toruń, also known as Stalag 20A, hides many untold stories. One of them belongs to a Royal Navy sailor captured during a daring special operation on the rivers of France. On our blog wartimeguides.blogspot.com, we share real accounts of POWs who were imprisoned in camps like Stalag XXA in Toruń. This time, we tell the story of a sailor involved in one of the first special missions of its kind – destroying German river infrastructure using floating mines launched from French territory. After being captured, he was sent to the POW camp in Toruń, where he spent the remainder of the war. Thanks to the visit of his son, who travelled all the way from New Zealand, we were able to reconstruct this extraordinary story. Together, we visited key places connected to the Stalag, including the forts that formed part of Stalag XXA, to better understand daily life in captivity. The son revealed that his father never spoke about the war. This made the journey not only emotiona...
This blog is dedicated to people who were imprisoned in Stalag XXA in Thorn in 1939-45. We would like to show you that in the shadows of the beautiful gothic city there is also forgotten history.