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    Stalag III-A was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp at Luckenwalde, Brandenburg, 52 kilometres (32 mi) south of Berlin. It housed Polish, Dutch...
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    Prenzlau Stalag III-A Luckenwalde Stalag III-B Fürstenberg/Oder Stalag III-C Alt-Drewitz (Drzewice) Stalag III-D Berlin-Lichterfelde Oflag III-A Luckenwalde...
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  • (transferred from Stalag III-B late 1944) Two further sub-camps; Stalag III-D/999 in Zehlendorf West, Berlin, and Stalag III-D/517 at Genshagen, Ludwigsfelde...
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    In Germany, stalag (/ˈstælæɡ/; German: [ˈʃtalak]) was a term used for prisoner-of-war camps. Stalag is a contraction of "Stammlager", itself short for...
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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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    Stalag Luft III (German: Stammlager Luft III; literally "Main Camp, Air, III"; SL III) was a Luftwaffe-run prisoner-of-war (POW) camp during the Second...
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    The Stalag Luft III murders were war crimes perpetrated by members of the Gestapo following the "Great Escape" of Allied prisoners of war from the German...
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  • Stalag 17 is a 1953 American war film directed by Billy Wilder. It tells the story of a group of American airmen confined with 40,000 prisoners in a World...
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    prisoner-of-war camps, including Stalag III-A, Stalag III-B, Stalag III-C, Stalag III-D, Oflag II-A, Oflag III-A, Oflag III-B, Oflag III-C, Oflag 8 and Oflag 80...
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  • August 1940 most enlisted men were shipped to other camps: Stalag XIII-A, Stalag XIII-B and Stalag XIII-C. Only those remained who were already employed in...
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  • October 1942, when 200 RAF NCOs from Stalag Luft III were moved there. From 1943, American POWs were sent to the camp. Stalag Luft I consisted of a West Compound...
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    prisoner-of-war camps, including Stalag III-A, Stalag III-B, Stalag III-C, Stalag III-D, Oflag II-A, Oflag III-A, Oflag III-B, Oflag III-C, Oflag 8 and Oflag 80...
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  • transferred to Stalag III B at Lannesdorf and interned from December 1940 to January 1941. Stalag III B acted as a screening camp for another camp Stalag XX A (301)...
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    the Oder was created. During World War II, the Germans operated the Stalag III-B prisoner-of-war camp for Polish, French, Belgian, Serbian, Soviet, American...
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    During World War II, the Germans established and operated the Stalag III-B, Oflag III-C and Oflag 8 and prisoner-of-war camps for Polish, French, Belgian...
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    several prisoner-of-war camps, including Oflag III-C, Oflag IV-D, Oflag 8, Stalag III-B, Stalag IV-A and Stalag VIII-A, with multiple forced labour subcamps...
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  • Johnnie Dodge (category Participants in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III)
    Stalag Luft III at Sagan in April 1942. Here Dodge again acted as deputy to Day. In November 1942, he was transferred again, this time to Oflag XXI-B...
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  • in the Military District XXI, alongside the Stalag XXI-A in Ostrzeszów, Stalag XXI-B in Szubin and Stalag XXI-D in Poznań. The camp was established in...
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    then ending at Stalag III-A at Luckenwalde, 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of Berlin. The "southern route", from Stalag VIII-B (formerly Stalag VIII-D) at Teschen...
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    Gale Cleven (category Stalag Luft III prisoners of World War II)
    Bremen, Germany. Cleven was then taken as a prisoner-of-war to Stalag Luft III and Stalag VII-A, before escaping to American lines in March 1945. During...
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    prisoner-of-war camps, including Stalag III-A, Stalag III-B, Stalag III-C, Stalag III-D, Oflag II-A, Oflag III-A, Oflag III-B, Oflag III-C, Oflag 8 and Oflag 80...
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  • Roger Bushell (category Participants in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III)
    South African RAF aviator. He masterminded the "Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III in 1944, but was one of the 50 escapees to be recaptured and subsequently...
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    - Stalag XXI-B2 was renamed to Stalag XXI-B; Stalag XXI-B1 in Antoniewo was renamed to Stalag XXI-B/Z, and made a branch camp of the Stalag XXI-B in...
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  • Harry Day (category Participants in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III)
    When Stalag Luft I was closed in March 1942, Day and all RAF inmates were transferred to the east compound at the newly built Stalag Luft III at Sagan...
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  • Jimmy Buckley (category EngvarB from September 2014)
    1942, the compound at Stalag Luft III was becoming overcrowded, and the Germans transferred a number of officers to Oflag XXI-B at Schubin in northern...
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  • Sydney Dowse (category Participants in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III)
    including Dowse, was able to do so. In May 1942, Dowse was transferred to Stalag Luft III at Sagan with a batch of other RAF officers. Dowse's next escape attempt...
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  • as Stuart O'Neill, a POW at Stalag Luft III Robert Hands as Major Gustav Simoleit, Deputy Commandant at Stalag Luft III Saro Emirze as Hanns Scharff...
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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...
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  • Bram van der Stok (category Participants in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III)
    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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  • including Stalag I-A, Stalag I-B, Stalag II-B, Stalag II-D, Stalag III-C, Stalag VIII-A, Stalag VIII-C, Stalag XX-B, Stalag XXI-A, Stalag XXI-D, Stalag 325...
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