Stalag Luft III

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  Stalag IV-G

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  Stalag IV-B

  Stalag IV-B(or Stalag IV B) was one of the largest prisoner of war camps in Germany during World War II. Stalag meens the German noun "Stammlager". The main camp was located 8km NE of the town Mühlberg in Brandenburg, just east of the Elbe river and about 30 miles (50 km) north of Dresden. A branch...
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  Stalag III-A

  Stalag III-A was a German Army prisoner-of-war camp located at Luckenwalde, 30 km south of Berlin. This camp was opened in September 1939. By April 1945, a total of five thousand internees had died due to starvation and disease. At its height the compound housed around four thousand American...

• Stalag II-B

  Stalag II-B was a German World War II POW camp situated one and a one-half miles (2.4 km) west of the village of Hammerstein, now the Polish town Czarne, Pomeranian Voivodeship on the north side of the railway line. In August 1943 the Stalag was reported as newly opened to privates of the US ground...

• Stalag VIII-B

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• Stalag IV-A

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• Stalag III-C Alt-Drewitz

  Stalag III-C Alt-Drewitz was a German Army World War II POW camp for Allied soldiers. It was located on a plain near the village of Alt-Drewitz (now Drzewice, one of the boroughs of the town of Kostrzyn nad Odrą). Initially the camp served as a place of internment of several thousands of soldiers...

• Stalag X-B

  Stalag X-B was a World War II German Prisoner-of-war camp located near Sandbostel in north-western Germany. Sandbostel lies 9 km south of Bremervörde, 43 km northeast of Bremen. Placed on swampy ground,with a damp, cold climate, it is one of the most notorious prisoner-of-war camps. Between 1939...

• Stalag IV-E

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• Stalag Luft IV

  Stalag Luft 4 was a German POW camp in Tychowo, Poland (German: Gross Tychow). The camp was opened in May 1944 and in July of that year a military report was released. The report described such problems as inadequate shower facilities, unfit distribution of Red Cross POW parcels, and that prisoners...