Raymond Troye (1908–2003) was a
Belgian army officer and writer born in
Charleroi
Charleroi (, , ; ) is a city and a municipality of Wallonia, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. It is the largest city in both Hainaut and Wallonia. The city is situated in the valley of the Sambre, in the south-west of Belgium, not ...
. During his imprisonment in
Nazi
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Germany, he wrote 5 novels of which two were published after the war.
As a young
lieutenant
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in the Belgian army, he was captured by the German army in May 1940. He spent a few days in the transit camp of
Dortmund
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, after which he was sent to a camp in
Bavaria
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(
Oflag VII-B
Oflag VII-B was a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp for officers (''Offizierlager''), located in Eichstätt, Bavaria, about north of Munich.
Camp history
The camp was built in September 1939 to house Polish prisoners from the German inva ...
) where he remained for two years before being transferred to another camp close to
Hamburg
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(
Oflag XD
Oflag X-D was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp for officers ('' Offizierlager'') located in Fischbek, a ''Stadtteil'' of Hamburg, Germany.
Camp history
The camp was established in May 1941. On 22 June 1943, all reserve officers of t ...
). He spent the two last years of the war in a camp located in the north of
Berlin
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(
Oflag II-A).
Bibliography
* R. Troye, ''Meurtre dans un Oflag'', Les Editions Atalante, Bruxelles, 1947
* R. Troye, ''Le Pharmacien de Chantenelle'', Les Editions Atalante, Bruxelles, 1947
Sources
Raymond Troye(French)
1908 births
2003 deaths
Walloon people
Belgian Army officers
Belgian prisoners of war in World War II
Belgian writers in French
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