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 | Nissen huts at the former 633 German POW Camp Boughton, near Ollerton. There were over one thousand POW camps on British soil by 1946 and a million prisoners, many of whom were being processed through the denazification program. |  | 05/23/2009 | 1,316 | 



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 | This is an aerial photo taken in 1947. The deserted camp still remains.
Niigata City was the site of two POW Camps during the Second World War. It was the first major influx of foreigners to Niigata in the history of the city.
Many of the POWs that were at Niigata Camp 5B worked on Niigata’s docks, loading cargo from Taiwan, Korea and Northern China to support th... |  | 06/29/2007 | 690 | 
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 | Pingley POW (prisoner of war) camp is one of the few prisoner of war camps in the United Kingdom that remains in good condition. Unlike the relatively nearby Eden Camp which is preserved as a WW2 museum, Pingley Camp lays in a semi derelict state in the grounds of Pingley Farm. It is situated on the outskirts of Brigg, Lincolnshire.
The camp was used to house mainly Italian priso... |  | 08/31/2009 | 28 | 



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The largest German WW II POW camp was Stalag VII-A at Moosburg, Germany. Over 110,000 allied soldiers were imprisoned there. It was liberated by the U.S. 14th Armored Division following a short battle with SS soldiers of the 17th SS Panzer Grenadier Division on 29 April, 1945.
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 | Colditz Castle dates back to about 1200AD but became notorious during World War II as Oflag IVc (Officer's Camp IVc), a prisoner-of-war camp for "incorrigible" allied officers who had repeatedly escaped from other camps. The Nazi SS made Colditz a Sonderlager (high-security prison), the only one of its type within Germany. Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring even declared Colditz "escape-proof". Th... |  | 02/14/2006 | 757 | 
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 | The camp Le Vernet (or Camp Vernet) served several functions between June 1918 and 1948:
June 1918: Establishment of the camp to house French colonial troops during World War I. Short after the opening of the camp, it became a camp for German and Austrian POW's.
During the interbellum: Military depot.
1939: Reception camp for refugees Spanish civil war... |  | 08/21/2009 | 40 | 



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 | This is Brunswick Bowling and Billiards training center. Here they provide training for almost everything brunswick. Products that have available training here include: GS Series automatic pinsetters (GS-X, GS-98, GS-96, and GS-10), and Automatic scoring systems (Vector, Frameworx) |  | 08/02/2005 | 268 | 



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 | After the war, the J.A. Jones Company gave a cutaway scale Liberty ship model, previously used for training purposes, to the city of Brunswick for public display. Exposed to weathering for many decades, the original scale model eventually deteriorated to such an extent that it had to be scrapped.
A new scale model, dubbed the City of Brunswick, was unveiled on August 23, 1991 an... |  | 03/02/2007 | 230 | 



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 | Stalag Luft 1 was situated at Barth, Germany, a small town on the Baltic Sea 23 kilometers northwest of Stralsund.
Stalag Luft One opened as a camp for British officers late in 1942, American Airmen began to arrive early in 1943. By January 1944, the camp had been split into two compounds each with seven barracks, the South (Officers) and the West (Enlisted men). As the numbers ... |  | 02/26/2007 | 527 | 



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 | This picture shows Colditz Castel on 10 April 1945. |  | 05/17/2007 | 610 | 



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 | The Camp de Rivesaltes is a military camp in France (also called camp Joffre) located on the territory of the commune of Rivesaltes in Pyrénées-Orientales in the South of France. The camp was also used for interning several civil populations from 1939 to 2007. The darkest period of the camp was in 1942 when 2251 Jews, including 110 children of the Rivesaltes Camp were transferred via the Drancy... |  | 08/21/2009 | 40 | 



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 | Camp des Milles was a French internment camp, opened in September 1939, in a former factory. The camp was first used to intern Germans and Austrians, and by June 1940, some 3,500 people were detained here.
Between 1941 and 1942 Le Camp des Milles was used as a transit camp for Jews before deportation. About 2,000 of the inmates were shipped off to the Drancy camp on the way to Au... |  | 08/21/2009 | 29 | 



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