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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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 | 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 | 



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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 | 692 | 
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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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 | 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 | 29 | 



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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 | 528 | 



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 | 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 | 



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 | Here one of The German KFOR Camp's in Kosovo
It's the "Airfield" A German Mechanic Camp |  | 08/23/2005 | 396 | 



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



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 | Ravensbrück was a notorious women's concentration camp during in World War II, located in northern Germany, 90 km north of Berlin at a site near the village of Ravensbrück (part of Fürstenberg/Havel). Construction of the camp began in November 1938 by SS leader Heinrich Himmler and was unusual in that it was a camp primarily for women. The camp opened in May 1939. In the spring of 1941, the SS ... |  | 08/10/2007 | 1,830 | 
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 | On this cemetery (Kriegsgräberstätte) are the graves of 2000 casualties, soldiers, civilians and POW’s, of the bombardments on Peenemünde and Karlshagen on 17 and 18 August 1943 and 18 July 1944.
There are also two mass graves with 56 and 213 forced laborers from the camps Trassenheide I and Trassenheide II, satellite camps of concentration camp Ravensbrück. They had to work on t... |  | 08/31/2009 | 25 | 



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 | The Chełmno extermination camp (German name Kulmhof) was an extermination camp of Nazi Germany that was situated 70 kilometres (43 mi) from Łódź, near a small village called Chełmno nad Nerem (Kulmhof an der Nehr, in German). This was in a part of Poland annexed by Germany as Reichsgau Wartheland in 1939. It was the first extermination camp, opened in 1941 to kill the Jews o... |  | 08/09/2007 | 3,904 | 
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