Dulag Luft, Transit camp in Oberursel, Germany
Dulag Luft was a German transit camp in Oberursel, in the Taunus hills near Frankfurt, dedicated to receiving and interrogating captured Allied aircrews during the Second World War. The site consisted of wooden barracks and a block of solitary cells where prisoners were held during processing before being transferred to permanent camps.
The camp was set up in 1939 and remained in use throughout the war as the main reception point for Allied aircrews shot down over German-controlled territory. After 1945, the United States took over the site and ran it as Camp King until 1993.
In the main interrogation building, German officers questioned captured Allied airmen about their units and missions. Some of the isolation cells are still intact, giving visitors a direct sense of how those sessions were conducted.
The site is in Oberursel and can be reached by public transit from Frankfurt in a short time. The outdoor grounds and preserved buildings cover a fair amount of space, so it is worth setting aside enough time to walk through everything at a comfortable pace.
The interrogators here relied mainly on psychological methods rather than physical pressure, which set this camp apart from many other wartime detention sites. German officers were trained to build a sense of rapport with prisoners through casual conversation before moving to questions about their units.
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