page_title: Stalag II-D
section_title: Escape
hierarchical_section_title: Stalag II-D / Escape
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Pomnik ofiar obozu Stalag-II-D
context_page_description: Stalag II-D Stargard was a World War II German Army Prisoner-of-war camp located near Stargard, Pomerania, about 30 kilometres east of Stettin.
context_section_description: It was relatively easy to escape from a farm, but much more difficult to evade recapture. Prisoners working on farms did not have the essential assistance that was provided in Oflags by teams of dedicated specialists who forged documents and prepared maps. Without these it was extremely difficult to traverse hundreds of miles past frequent checks by the Nazi police.
  Gabriel Regnier, a French prisoner, describes his failed attempt with a French companion on 23 March 1942. A Polish civilian worker at the farm had helped them by hiding civilian clothes for them. It was a dark night and they successfully reached a freight train that was switching cars at the station that was close to the farm. They successfully hid in one box-car full of boxes. But then the train stopped in Stettin for unloading, they switched to another car loaded with sacks of barley destined for Aachen in western Germany, which they reached four days later. There again they got out to search for a car going to the Netherlands. Unfortunately the driver of a vehicle noticed two persons moving hesitantly along the train and alerted the military police. Recaptured they were returned to Stargard and spent 24 days in solitary confinement. It could have ended much worse.
caption: Memorial to the victims of the camp
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