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Stalag 363 in Poznań (Poland), Kharkiv and Kremenchuk (Ukraine), and Plauen (Germany) [72] Stalag 366 in Siedlce (Poland) [73] Stalag 367 in Częstochowa and Tułowice (Poland) [74] Stalag 368 in Beniaminów (Poland) [75] Memorial at the site of the Stalag 369 camp in Kobierzyn, Kraków. Stalag 369 in Kobierzyn (Poland) Stalag 371 in ...
Stalag VII-A (in full: Kriegsgefangenen-Mannschafts-Stammlager VII-A) was the largest prisoner-of-war camp in Nazi Germany during World War II, located just north of the town of Moosburg in southern Bavaria. The camp covered an area of 35 hectares (86 acres).
In Germany, stalag (/ ˈ s t æ l æ ɡ /; German:) was a term used for prisoner-of-war camps. Stalag is a contraction of " Sta mm lag er", itself short for Kriegsgefangenen-Mannschaftsstammlager , literally "main camp for enlisted prisoners of war" (officers were kept in an " Oflag ").
The images were taken within 15–30 minutes of each other by an inmate inside Auschwitz-Birkenau, the extermination camp within the Auschwitz complex. Usually named only as Alex, a Jewish prisoner from Greece, the photographer was a member of the Sonderkommando , inmates forced to work in and around the gas chambers.
No camps were built on the territory of Germany's allies that enjoyed even nominal independence. [95] Each camp housed either men, women, or a mixed population. Women's camps were mostly for armaments production and located primarily in northern Germany, Thuringia, or the Sudetenland, while men's camps had a wider geographical distribution. Sex ...
Aichner pursued his expansion plans until his retirement at the end of January 2010: His last major act was the opening of an exhibition on the history of the Deutsche Gebirgstruppe (German mountain troops) from 1915 to today, in which the foundation Deutsche Gebirgstruppe was founded.
Image credits: Photoglob Zürich "The product name Kodachrome resurfaced in the 1930s with a three-color chromogenic process, a variant that we still use today," Osterman continues.
After the liberation of the camp by the Americans at the end of April 1945, it was turned into Civilian Internment Camp #6 for 12,000 German men and women suspected of criminal activity for the Nazi regime. From 1948, the camp served to house German refugees exiled from Eastern Europe. It became a new part of the town, named Moosburg-Neustadt. [3]