Stalag XIII A

There were four Stalags 13, or Stalags XIII, in the German POW camp system.

The most famous one was the camp near Hammelburg: Stalag XIII C, which was featured in the TV series Hogan's Heroes.

The others were Stalag XIII B Weiden, Stalag XIII D Nuremberg, and Stalag XIII A Sulzbach-Rosenberg, the one in this article.

Locations of the Stalag XIII Camps

Stalag XIII A was located in Bavaria, like all the Stalag XIIIs, near the towns of Sulzbach and Rosenberg.

This camp was a very large one, varying from around 30,000 to a peak of 50,000 in December of 1942. The prisoners were of a number of different nationalities: French, Belgian, Italian, Polish, Russian and Serbian. Many of the prisoners worked on the farms in the vicinity of the camp.

Jean Marie Roullet - French POW in Stalag XIII A

Jean Marie Roullet was a soldier in the Third Regiment of Zouaves, in the French Army during World War II. He was captured by the Germans in 1940 and was sent to the Stalag XIII A camp in the Sulzbach-Rosenberg area.

He worked in a labor detail on farms in the area, and met his future wife there. He retuned to his home in France after the war.

His son, Patrick Roullet, kindly shared his father's story and photographs from the war.

Jean Marie Roullet was born in 1918 and died in 1965.

Jean Marie Roullet in dress uniform

Photos from the Camp

Jean Marie Roullet with other POWs 1942

Jean Roullet and POWs

Documents

His son has a paper with the Stalag XIII A stamp on it.

The list of captured French prisoners was published in a French newspaper in 1940. Roullet's name was on the list.

This is Jean Marie Roullet's identity card as a French war veteran.

War veteran's identity card from 1957

Source of information for Stalag XIII A:

Mannschaftsstammlager (Stalag) XIII A, by Alexander Kruglov, Project Muse.

There doesn't seem to be very much written about this camp.

More Stalag XIII...

1. Stalag XIII C, near Hammelburg. Articles on the camp made famous by Hogan's Heroes.

See Stalag 13 C history, Stalag 13 C today, Hammelburg, Hogan's Heroes.

2. Stalag XIII B, near Weiden. Story and photos of a Polish POW.

See Stalag 13 B.

3. Stalag XIII D, near Nuremberg. Questions about the real-world inspirations for Hogan's Heroes characters.

See the real characters from Hogan's Heroes.

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