from Stalag Luft IV at Gross Tychow, Pomerania began an eighty-six-day forced march to Stalag XI-B and Stalag 357 at Fallingbostel. Many prisoners were then marched from here at the end of the war towards Lübeck. 8 February 1945 – Stalag VIII-C at Sagan was evacuated. The POWs marched across Germany to Stalag IX-B near Bad Orb, and arrive there 16 March. 10 February 1945 – Stalag VIII-A at Görlitz was evacuated. 14 February 1945 – Commonwealth and US bomber squadrons attacked Dresden. 19 March 1945 – Hitler issued the Nero Decree. 3 April 1945 – Stalag XIII-D at Nuremberg was evacuated. 6 April 1945 – Stalag XI-B and Stalag 357 at Fallingbostel were evacuated. 16 April 1945 – Oflag IV-C, (Colditz Castle), was liberated. 16 April 1945 – POWs left behind at Fallingbostel were liberated by the British Second Army. 17 April 1945 – Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was liberated. 19 April 1945 – POW column was attacked by allied aircraft at Gresse resulting in 60 fatalities. 22 April 1945 – Stalag III-A at Luckenwalde was liberated by Soviet forces. 27 April 1945 – US and Soviet forces met at the River Elbe. 29 April 1945 – Stalag VII-A at Moosburg was liberated by Patton's Third United States Army. 30 April 1945 – Berlin falls to the Red Army and Hitler commits suicide. 4 May 1945 – German forces surrendered on Lüneburg Heath. 10 May 1945 – The last POWs evacuated from Stalag 357 / Stalag XI-B at Fallingbostel are liberated. 12 May 1945 – The Red Army releases Commonwealth and US POWs at Stalag III-A, Luckenwalde. See also Sandakan Death Marches James "Dixie" Deans Bataan Death March Death marches (Holocaust) Phil Lamason List of German World War II POW camps Prisoner of war Prisoner-of-war camp Notes References Bibliography Goodman, W.E. "Bill" (2013). Of Stirlings and Stalags: An air-gunner's tale. PublishNation. Kydd, Sam (1974). For You The War Is Over Futura. Morrison, Charles (1989). We've Been A Long Time Coming Boys. Albyn Press. MacMahon, John (1995). Almost a Lifetime. Shamrock Publications, Salt Spring Island BC Nichol and Rennell (2003). The Last Escape. Viking, New York. The Long March to Freedom ()- 3-part video documentary, dir. Stephen Saunders - ASA, Stafford, 2011. External links http://www.lamsdorf.com/the-long-march.html Lamsdorf Death March 1945 An account by RAF Warrant Officer Joseph Fusniak, BEM (still alive Sept 2010) Stalag VIII-B Discussion Board Lamsdorf Remembered Norman Jardine's Diary