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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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  • December: Frontstalag 212 POW camp dissolved. Stalag XII-E POW camp established. 1942 – Stalag XII-E POW camp dissolved. 1944 27 September: Battle of...
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    World War, Germany established and operated a prison for Poles and the Stalag XX-A prisoner-of-war camp for Polish, British, French, Australian and Soviet...
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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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    hospitals in the town. Ratisbon Luft-Stalag 13 – in the TV series Hogan's Heroes Stalag 17 – in the 1953 film of that name Stalag Luft Nord – in the 1963 movie...
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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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    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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    (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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    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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    toward Limburg, where thousands of Allied prisoners were liberated from Stalag XIIA. The Division drove on to Frankfurt and then turned to assist in the...
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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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  • forces. In June 1940, Griéguez was arrested by the Gestapo. He was sent to Stalag XII-D, a prisoner-of-war camp in Trier. On 3 April 1941, he was transferred...
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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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  • Holocaust 1993 United Kingdom Stalag Luft Adrian Shergold Comedy-drama. Commonwealth POWs attempt escape from German Stalag Luft 1993 Germany Stalingrad...
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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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    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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    following morning, spending the rest of the war in Stalag Luft I at Barth, Germany. Lord, the second pilot P/O R. E. H. "Dickie" Medhurst (son of Air Chief Marshal...
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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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    and he spent nine months as a prisoner of war—in Nancy and finally in Stalag XII-D [fr], Trier, where he wrote his first theatrical piece, Barionà, fils...
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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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    including Stalag 301, Stalag 307, Stalag 359, Stalag 367, Stalag 369, Stalag 380, Stalag XII-C, Oflag 77, and multiple forced labour subcamps of Stalag VIII-B/344...
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    occupied Europe. In addition, the German Wehrmacht has set up the infamous Stalag 342 for the Soviet prisoners of war there, in which at least 30,000 people...
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    World War II, the Germans operated the E330 forced labour subcamp of the Stalag VIII-B/344 prisoner-of-war camp in the village. After Germany's defeat in...
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    sustained in combat during the Battle of Metz. From there he was sent to Stalag XII-A in Diez where he was forced to work in a metal scrap yard near the camp...
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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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    Allied POWs from World War II at the former Oflag II-B, Oflag II-D and Stalag Luft IV German POW camps in Choszczno, Kłomino and Tychowo, and a memorial...
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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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  • Merkurlager 4-Am Lenzweg forced labour camp established by the Germans. 1941 Stalag 322 prisoner-of-war camp briefly based in the city, but soon relocated....
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