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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).
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Stalag Luft 7 was a World War II Luftwaffe prisoner-of-war camp located in Morzyczyn, Pomerania, and Bankau, Silesia (now Bąków, Poland). It held British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealander, French , Polish, South African, American and other Allied airmen.
By scanning three consecutive days of the Times Recorder on Sept. 22, 23 and 25, 1944, I discovered the Times Recorder kept its readers abreast of all that was happening with our local soldiers.
Memorial to the victims of the Stalag 338 camp in Kryvyi Rih. Stalag 338 in Kietrz (Poland), Kryvyi Rih and Voznesensk (Ukraine), Reni (Romania) [54] Stalag 339 in Kyiv-Darnytsia and Berdychiv (Ukraine) [55] Stalag 340 in Daugavpils (Latvia) [56] Stalag 341 in Slutsk and Mogilev (Belarus) [57] Stalag 342 in Mołodeczno (Poland)
19 January 1945 – evacuation from Stalag Luft 7 at Bankau, near Kreuzberg, Poland, begins in blizzard conditions – 1,500 prisoners were force marched then loaded onto cattle trucks and taken to Stalag III-A at Luckenwalde, south of Berlin. Evacuation of work party 344 at (Piaski), part of Stalag VIIB, prisoners commenced march on foot.
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 ").
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 ...