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1944 map of POW camps in Germany. American Red Cross German POW Camp Map from December 31, 1944. Nazi Germany operated around 1,000 prisoner-of-war camps (German: Kriegsgefangenenlager) during World War II (1939-1945).
German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II This page was last edited on 14 July 2020, at 16:09 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
The Rheinwiesenlager (German: [ˈʁaɪnˌviːzn̩ˌlaːɡɐ], Rhine meadow camps) were a group of 19 concentration camps built in the Allied-occupied part of Germany by the U.S. Army to hold captured German soldiers at the close of the Second World War.
Italian soldiers taken prisoner by the Allies during Operation Compass (1941). Most prisoners, after being captured, spent the war in the prisoner of war camps.In the early phases of the war, following German occupation of much of Europe, Germany also found itself unprepared for the number of POWs it held.
World War II civilian prisoners held by Germany (2 C) Prisoners of war held at Colditz Castle (1 C, 47 P) Military personnel who died in Nazi concentration camps (38 P)
A current (2013) sign outside the Owosso, Michigan, WWII POW camp where German soldiers were held. The site had been and is currently the Owosso racetrack. The Geneva Convention's mandate of equal treatment for prisoners also meant they were paid American military wages.
1 Allied prisoner-of-war camps during World War II. 2 Axis prisoner-of-war camps during World War II. Toggle the table of contents. Lists of World War II prisoner-of ...
Italian prisoners of war working on the Arizona Canal (December 1943) In the United States at the end of World War II, there were prisoner-of-war camps, including 175 Branch Camps serving 511 Area Camps containing over 425,000 prisoners of war (mostly German). The camps were located all over the US, but were mostly in the South, due to the higher expense of heating the barracks in colder areas ...