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    der Lahn Stalag XII-B Frankenthal/Palatinate Stalag XII-C Wiebelsheim/Rhein Stalag XII-D Trier/Petrisberg (Trèves) Stalag XII-E Metz Stalag XII-F Forbach...
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    Stalag VIII-B was most recently a German Army administered POW camp during World War II, later renumbered Stalag-344, located near the village of Lamsdorf...
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    actual escape from Stalag Luft III. Pleasence, who had been an aircraft wireless operator with No. 166 Squadron, was imprisoned in Stalag Luft I after his...
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  • Bram van der Stok (category Participants in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III)
    most decorated aviator in Dutch history. In March 1944, he broke out of Stalag Luft III – a prisoner-of-war camp in Nazi Germany – during the mass break-out...
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    POWs of various nationalities, incl. the Stalag 331 C/I-C and Stalag I-D camps for regular soldiers, the Stalag Luft VI camp for airmen, and the Oflag 53...
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  • In 1983, they reenacted an interrogation at a reunion held in Chicago of Stalag Luft III POWS.[citation needed] Scharff also interrogated Col. Hubert Zemke...
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    River. During the war, the Germans operated a forced labour subcamp of the Stalag I-A prisoner-of-war camp for Allied POWs in the town, and expelled Poles...
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    (1953). In 1953, Heston was Billy Wilder's first choice to play Sefton in Stalag 17. However, the role was given to William Holden, who won an Oscar for...
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    October 1941, the Germans relocated the Stalag II F prisoner-of-war camp from Czarne to Przemyśl and renamed it Stalag 315, with some POWs, including Jews...
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    several prisoner-of-war camps, including Stalag I-A, Stalag I-B, Stalag I-C, Stalag I-D, Stalag I-E, Stalag I-F, Stalag Luft VI, Oflag 52, Oflag 53, Oflag 60...
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    about the killing of 50 airmen who had been recaptured after escaping from Stalag Luft III in time to have saved them. He also presented evidence that Göring...
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    Franzburg to Barth. During World War II Barth was the site of the Stalag Luft I and Stalag Luft II German prisoner-of-war camps for captured Allied airmen...
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    murdered by the Gestapo in March 1944 for taking part in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III. After the End of World War II in Europe, on 26 May 1945 the Czechoslovak...
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    advanced northeast. On 16 April 1945, the 7th Armoured Division liberated Stalag 11B in Fallingbostel, which was the first prisoner-of-war camp to be liberated...
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    POWs of various nationalities, incl. the Stalag 331 C/I-C and Stalag I-D camps for regular soldiers, the Stalag Luft VI camp and Dulag Luft transit camp...
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  • archive.org 1939 Reynal and Hitchcock translation at archive.org. 1940 Stalag Edition at archive.org Stackpole edition of Mein Kampf Some plain talk about...
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  • officers who escaped from Stalag Luft III, he was caught and was of the 50 men executed on the orders of Adolf Hitler Spitfire F Mk.Vb AD540 (Blue Peter)...
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    and only the navigator F/O Harry King escaped. He was made a POW the following morning, spending the rest of the war in Stalag Luft I at Barth, Germany...
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    camp of Gross-Rosen in January 1945. There were also three subcamps of the Stalag VIII-B/344 prisoner-of-war camp, and two Nazi prisons in the city, including...
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    a prisoner of war (PoW). Confined firstly to Stalag Luft III at Żagań in Lower Silesia, then to Stalag III-A at Luckenwalde, Brandenburg, he remained...
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    "Stalag XX B Marienburg: geneza i znaczenie obozu jenieckiego w Malborku-Wielbarku w latach II wojny światowej". In Grudziecka, Beata (ed.). Stalag XX...
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  • Alfonso XII and María Cristina (Spanish: Alfonso XII y María Cristina: ¿Dónde vas triste de ti?) (1960) – Spanish historical drama film about Alfonso XII who...
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  • Following the creation of SOE's F Section in the summer of 1940, it became eventually apparent that French anti-German sentiment was not as simple as...
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    Another group, considered as particularly anti-German, was transferred to Stalag XX-A in Toruń, where they received a harsher treatment. Most remained in...
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    admiral"–being captured on 26 April, exposing the Sandbostel concentration camp, Stalag X-B. XXX Corps had reached Cuxhaven by the time hostilities ceased in May...
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  • theologian Stanislas Breton, who had also been a prisoner in the German stalags; from Guitton, who converted him into a "mystic monk" in Roudinesco's words;...
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    Scottish air force officer, member of the escape team from the German POW camp Stalag Luft III, in Milnathort, Scotland (d. 2000); Tony Rolt, British racing driver...
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  • defeat, he ended up in officer prisoner-of-war camps in Bergen-Belsen and Stalag X-B, while Maria found herself in Głogoczów near Kraków. After the war,...
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    France the following month. Taken into immediate captivity, he was sent to Stalag Luft III, Sagan, where he remained until March 1944, when he took part in...
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  • South at Tarnopol. Stalag Luft III murders: Hitler ordered the execution of prisoners of war who were recaptured after escaping Stalag Luft III. The Battle...
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