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Colditz Castle - POW Camp - Related Files

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	Colditz Castle - with overlays 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
	German POW camp Boughton 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
	Niigata POW Camp 1947 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	691
	Pingley POW Camp 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
	A photo of Stalag VII A, ca. 1945, Moosburg The camp area is marked by a white line. 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. More information and pictures here: htt...		02/28/2007	456
	Concentration Camp Le Vernet 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
	POW camp Oflag 79 at Brunswick-Querum Oflag 79 was a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp for officers located at Querum, near Braunschweig It was located in a three story brick building that had previously been the home of a German parachute regiment, near the Herman Goering aircraft engine factory.		02/27/2007	330
	Stalag Luft 1 at Barth-Vogelsang 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	528
	Camp de Rivesaltes 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
	Internment Camp Camp des Milles 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
	Concentration Camp Kaltenkirchen At Springhirsch near Kaltenkirchen was from August 1944 to April 1945 a satellite camp of concentration camp Neuengamme. The prisoners had to construct a military airport. About 700 of them died in this camp. Some remains of the camp are still visible. There is also a small museum and a memorial.		08/29/2009	41
	Camp Blechhammer The Blechhammer (English: sheet metal hammer) area was the location of Nazi Germany prisoner of war (POW) and forced labor camps (German: Arbeitslager Blechhammer, Nummernbücher). Labor camp prisoners began arriving as early as June 17, 1942, and the mobile “pocket furnace” (German: Taschenofen) crematorium was at Sławięcice. The March (1945) evacuated POWs (one camp went to Regensbur...		08/21/2009	45