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2 unusual facts about Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp


F. W. Winterbotham

He was shot down and captured on 13 July 1917, and spent the rest of the war as a PoW, for much of the time in Holzminden.

Gerard Crole

Two months later, he was shot down but survived; he sat out the war as a prisoner at Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp in Germany.


Argyle Street Camp

Argyle Street Camp was a Japanese World War II Prisoner-of-war camp in Kowloon, Hong Kong which primarily held officer prisoners.

Oflag VIII-F

Oflag VIII-F was a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp for officers (Offizierlager) located first in Wahlstatt, Germany (now Legnickie Pole, Poland) and then at Mährisch-Trübau, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (now Moravská Třebová, Czech Republic).

Posey War

The war ended after a skirmish at Comb Ridge, Posey was badly wounded and his band was taken to a prisoner-of-war camp in Blanding.

Prisoner-of-war camp

According to historians Zbigniew Karpus and Waldemar Rezmer, up to 2000 prisoners died in the camp during its operation.

Stalag IV-F

Stalag IV-F was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp in Hartmannsdorf bei Chemnitz, Saxony.

Stalag VII-A

Stalag VII-A (in full: Kriegsgefangenen-Mannschafts-Stammlager VII-A) was Germany's largest prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, located just north of the town of Moosburg in southern Bavaria.

Stalag X-B

Stalag X-B was a World War II German Prisoner-of-war camp located near Sandbostel in north-western Germany.

Stalag XI-C

Stalg XI-C Bergen-Belsen, initially called Stalag 311, was a German Army prisoner-of-war camp located near the town of Bergen in Lower Saxony.

Takashi Nagase

Nagase is also noted for his reconciliation with former British Army officer Eric Lomax, whom he interrogated and tortured at a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in 1942.

Teharje camp

Teharje camp was a World War II prison camp near Teharje, Slovenia, organised by Nazi Germany and used after the war by the Yugoslav Partisans.


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