Timeline

• September 1939 - An Internment Camp for enemy civilians was created within the buildings of the Sturmabteilung
  Sturmabteilung
  The Sturmabteilung functioned as a paramilitary organization of the National Socialist German Workers' Party . It played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s...
  
   camp at the parade grounds. Within a couple of months, the civilians were moved out and prisoners from the Invasion of Poland arrived.
• May 1940 - After the Invasion of Norway and then Battle of France
  Battle of France
  In the Second World War, the Battle of France was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries, beginning on 10 May 1940, which ended the Phoney War. The battle consisted of two main operations. In the first, Fall Gelb , German armoured units pushed through the Ardennes, to cut off and...
  
   prisoners arrived in large numbers, until they totalled 150,000 from all occupied countries, except Britain
  United Kingdom
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
  
  . British prisoners were held in separate camps all over Germany. Part of the facilities were used as Oflag XIII-A
  Oflag XIII-A
  Oflag XIII-A, Oflag XIII-B and Oflag XIII-D Nürnberg Langwasser were all German Army prisoner-of-war camps in World War II for officers. They were all located on the old Nazi party parade grounds in Nürnberg, northern Bavaria...
  
   for officers.
• August 1940 - most enlisted men were shipped to other camps Stalag XIII-A, Stalag XIII-B and Stalag XIII-C
  Stalag XIII-C
  Stalag XIII-C was a German Army World War II prisoner-of-war camp built on what had been the German Army training camp Hammelburg, Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany....
  
  . Only those remained who were already employed in local industry and were housed in individual Arbeitskommandos.
• June 1941 started the massive influx of Soviet prisoners from Operation Barbarossa
  Operation Barbarossa
  Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that began on 22 June 1941. Over 4.5 million troops of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along a front., the largest invasion in the history of warfare...
  
  
• August 1943 the camp was severely damaged during an Allied
  Allies
  In everyday English usage, allies are people, groups, or nations that have joined together in an association for mutual benefit or to achieve some common purpose, whether or not explicit agreement has been worked out between them...
  
   air-raid. 23 wooden huts were burnt down. Miraculously only two Soviet prisoners were killed in the camp. However, in this and subsequent bombing attacks, many prisoners were killed in individual Arbeitskommandos.
• Autumn 1944 and spring 1945 the camp population grew enormously with the arrival of prisoners evacuated from camps in the east in front of the advance of the Red Army
  Red Army
  The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army started out as the Soviet Union's revolutionary communist combat groups during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1922. It grew into the national army of the Soviet Union. By the 1930s the Red Army was among the largest armies in history.The "Red Army" name refers to...
  
  . These included many Americans and British airmen from Stalag Luft 3.
• 12 April 1945 large numbers were marched to Stalag VII-A
  Stalag VII-A
  During World War II, Stalag VII-A was Germany's largest prisoner-of-war camp, located just north of the town of Moosburg in southern Bavaria. The camp covered an area of 35 ha. . It served also as a transit camp through which prisoners, including officers, were processed on their way to other camps...
  
  
• 16 April 1945 the camp was liberated by advance elements of the United States Army
  United States Army
  The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...
  
  

Sources

• Brief history of Nurnberg POW camps
• Official list of Stalags in German.