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unusual facts about Prisoner of war camp



Borisav Stanković

During World War I he resided in Niš, then in Montenegro where he was taken captive by the Austrians and incarcerated in a PoW camp in Derventa in Bosnia.


see also

10B

Stalag X-B, a World War II German Prisoner-of-war camp located near Sandbostel

10C

Oflag X-C, a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp for officers located near Lübeck in northern Germany

13D

Stalag XIII-D, a German Army World War II prisoner-of-war camp in Nürnberg

Alice Parizeau

Born in Łuniniec, Poland, as a young girl Poznańska was associated with the Polish Home Army during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising during World War II, which led to her internment in the Bergen-Belsen prisoner of war camp and her receipt of a war medal following the war.

Arnold Birch

After a flee from Antwerpen, Belgium with his division in October 1914, he spent World War I in a prisoner-of-war camp in Groningen, Netherlands playing football in the highly rated internal competition alongside Harry Waites.

Ashcan

Camp Ashcan, World War II prisoner of war camp for senior Nazi leaders

Benjamin Sweet

On September 25, 1863, Sweet was appointed a colonel in the Veteran Reserve Corps and assigned to the garrison at the Union Army prisoner-of-war camp for Confederate States Army soldiers at Camp Douglas, Chicago, Illinois.

Bergen-Belsen

Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (1942–1945), on the site of the prisoner-of-war camp

Stalag XI-C Bergen-Belsen (1940–1943), a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp

Darkest of Days

Other locations include the battles of Antietam and Tannenberg, and the German World War II prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III.

Donny Davies

Just a fortnight after receiving his wings, Davies was shot down over the French town of Douai, captured, and placed in a German Prisoner of War camp.

Escape from Colditz

Escape from Colditz is a game devised by successful escaper Pat Reid, based on the prisoner-of-war camp (Oflag IV-C) at Colditz Castle in Germany during World War II.

Fort Chaffee Maneuver Training Center

Fort Chaffee, located just outside of Fort Smith (Sebastian County) and Barling (Sebastian County) on Arkansas Highway 22, has served the United States as an army training camp, a prisoner of war camp, and a refugee camp.

Gotthart A. Eichhorn

His father, a Baltic German refugee from Estonia, was an architect and university lecturer, who moved after being released from a prisoner of war camp with his family to Hagen (Westfalen).

Hans Voss

Voss subsequently spent time in the British prisoner of war camp at Island Farm, Wales, and also Grizedale, in the Lake District.

Heinrich Eberbach

Eberbach was held in a prisoner-of-war camp until 1948 and shortly thereafter he became the director of a Protestant charity.

Kim Soo-young

He was eventually released to the Geojedo Island Prisoner-of-War Camp in 1952, where worked as an interpreter for the director of the hospital, and for the U.S 8th Army.

Lamsdorf

Stalag VIII-B, a notorious World War II German Army prisoner of war camp near Lamsdorf (Łambinowice)

Mexia, Texas

Nearby attractions include Fort Parker Historical recreation, the Confederate Reunion grounds, and Mexia State Supported Living Center (formerly Mexia State School), which began as a prisoner of war camp for members of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps during World War II.

Oerbke

During the Third Reich the German armed forces, the Wehrmacht established a prisoner-of-war camp in Oerbke in which up to 30,000 soldiers from the Red Army were housed.

Paul Wittgenstein

During his recovery in a prisoner-of-war camp in Omsk in Siberia, he resolved to continue his career using only his left hand.

Quatuor pour la fin du temps

He was captured by the German army in June 1940 and imprisoned in Stalag VIII-A, a prisoner-of-war camp in Görlitz, Germany (now Zgorzelec, Poland).

The Captive Heart

One of the locations used was the ex-naval prisoner of war camp Marlag, near Westertimke, which had remained largely intact after the end of the war the previous year.