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    Burgess was taken prisoner by the Nazis and held in a prison camp Frontstalag 142 in Besançon, France. He was released later the same year. List of Olympic...
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  • Battle of France. The main camps were: The camp at Besançon was called Frontstalag 142, or Caserne Vauban. At the end of 1940, 2,400 women, mostly British...
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    between 1940 and 1941, of an Internment Camp (Konzentrationslager), Frontstalag 142, also known as Caserne Vauban, which the Germans set up for 3–4,000...
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    Blitzkrieg. Besançon in the Doubs (in the Vauban barracks). Also called Frontstalag 142, it was actually an internment camp. At the end of 1940, 2,400 women...
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  • to the condemned internment Camp (Konzentrationslager) at Besançon (Frontstalag 142 or Caserne Vauban). At the end of 1940, 2,400 women, mostly British...
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  • France in 1940. When Paris fell to Nazi Germany she was interned in the Frontstalag 142 internment camp at Besançon. She escaped and reached England in 1941...
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  • afterword by Angela Jackson. The Clapton Press. ISBN 978-1-913693-00-8. Frontstalag 142: The Internment Diary of an English Lady Nicholas Shakespeare (7 November...
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  • United States Navy Baltimore-class heavy cruiser during the Korean War Frontstalag 133 was a temporary German prisoner of war camp during World War II located...
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    white compatriots, the colonial prisoners of war were imprisoned in Frontstalags in France rather than being brought to Germany. By keeping colonial soldiers...
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    March 1942 – The first convoy of Jewish deportees leaves Compiègne (Frontstalag 122) towards an extermination camp. 20 May 1942 – Occupied zone: Compulsory...
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    écho du Nord de la France (in French). 1 June 1920. Visse 2004, p. 237. Frontstalag 102 Lille durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale Archived 2021-01-08 at the...
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