Olivier Messiaen, a French composer, was one among thousands of captives enslaved in Stalag VIIIA. His name is inseparably tied to the history of the stalag, for it is here that his masterpiece, the Quartet for the End of Time, was created. Messiaen was born in 1908 in Avignon. His father, Pierre Messiaen, was a … Continue reading Olivier Messiaen