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German prisoner-of-war camps in World War I

February 21, 2023

During World War I, German prisoner-of-war camps were run by the 25 Army Corps Districts into which Germany was divided.[1][2] Around 2.4 million men were World War I prisoners of war in Germany.

Map of POW camps in Germany during World War I

Types of camp

Kriegsgefangenenlager (KGFL, "Prisoner of war camps") were divided into:

List of camps by Army Corps districts

 
British, French and Portuguese prisoners, c.1918
 
French colonial prisoners from North and West Africa
 
French POWs at work at a farm in Westscheid bei Mennighüffen

Guards Corps (Berlin)

Mannschaftslager
Lazarett
  • Berlin. Located on Alexandrinenstrasse.

I Army Corps (Königsberg)

None found.

II Army Corps (Stettin)

Mannschaftslager
Lazarett

III Army Corps (Berlin)

 
Kriegsgefangenenlager Crossen, 1914
Mannschaftslager
Internierungslager
  • Havelberg. For 4,500 internees of various nationalities, including nearly 400 British Indians

IV Army Corps (Magdeburg)

Offizierlager
Mannschaftslager
  • Gardelegen. Camp opened in September 1914.
  • Grabow. Formerly a military camp, consisting of eight compounds of six barracks each.
  • Merseburg An assembly camp holding up to 25,000 prisoners, from which men were drafted to work camps.
  • Quedlinburg. A camp 4 km (2+1⁄2 mi) from the town, holding 12,000 men.
  • Wittenberg. A camp 4.2 hectares (10+1⁄2 acres) in area at Klein Wittenberg, 3 km (2 mi) from the city. Eight compounds held 13,000 men.
  • Zerbst. A camp at an infantry drill ground 3 km (2 mi) north of the city. It held up to 15,000 men, but there were 100,000 registered there, the majority engaged in industry and agriculture.
Internierungslager
 
Ruhleben internment camp: detainees queuing for Christmas dinner: painting by Nico Jungman
  • Ruhleben. Camp for up to 4,500 internees 10 km (6 mi) from Berlin located at a racecourse.

V Army Corps (Posen)

Mannschaftslager
  • Lauban.
  • Sagan. A camp 8 km (5 mi) from the town holding 6,000 men.
  • Skalmierschütz. A very large camp for Russians and Romanians to which British and American prisoners were sent in early 1918.
  • Sprottau A camp 5 km (3 mi) from the town, and also a Lazarett for prisoners with tuberculosis.
  • Stralkowo. A camp 5 km (3 mi) from the town holding mainly Russians and Romanians, and British from March 1918.

VI Army Corps (Breslau)

Offizierlager
Mannschaftslager
  • Lamsdorf. A camp at a military training ground that was reopened during World War II as Stalag VIII-B.
  • Neuhammer. A clearing camp for Upper Silesia. 100,000 men were registered there, but were mostly in work camps under its administration.
Lazarett
  • Beuthen. Two large Lazaretts, containing British prisoners from early 1918.

VII Army Corps (Münster)

Offizierlager
Mannschaftslager
  • Burg Steinfurt. A camp for British prisoners.
  • Dortmund.
  • Duisburg.
  • Dülmen.
  • Düsseldorf.
  • Erfurt. Held 15,000 men.
  • Friedrichsfeld. Camp holding 35,000 men.
  • Hammerstein. A camp for Russian prisoners.
  • Heilsberg
  • Minden. A camp 5 km (3 mi) from the town with 18,000 men.
  • Münster. There were four camps: Münster I was outside the city in open farming country, Münster II was at the racecourse (Rennbahn), Münster III was a former Army barracks, and Münster IV was reserved for Russian prisoners.
  • Sennelager. Three camps just north of Paderborn, named Senne I, II & III.
  • Stendal. The camp lay 2 km (1 mi) north-east of the town, and was the parent camp for a number of work camps, holding 15,000 men.
  • Tuchel. A camp for Russians and Romanians, also holding British and American prisoners from 1918.
Lazarett

VIII Army Corps (Coblenz)

Offizierlager
  • Crefeld. There was also a Lazarett there.
Mannschaftslager
  • Limburg an der Lahn. A camp holding 12,000 men in which Irish prisoners were concentrated for the purpose of recruiting for the Irish Brigade.
  • Meschede. The camp, just outside the town, held 10,000 POWs.
  • Wahn. Located 30 km (20 mi) south-east of Cologne at the Wahner Heide Artillery practice camp. The camp had 35,000 men on its register, and was a parent camp for work camps in the district.
Lazarett
  • Aachen. Nine hospitals for British POWs awaiting repatriation.
  • Coblenz.
  • Cologne. Several hospitals. British prisoners were treated either in the Garrison Lazarett I or the Kaiserin Augusta Schule Lazarett VI.
  • Trier. Officer prisoners were treated in the Reserve Lazarett IV (Horn Kaserne).

IX Army Corps (Altona)

Offizierlager
Mannschaftslager
  • Güstrow. Situated in pine-woods 5 km (3 mi) from the town. It held 25,000 men, with a further 25,000 assigned to work camps registered there.
  • Lübeck. A camp for men employed at the docks. Also a reserve Lazarett.
  • Neumünster
  • Parchim. A camp built on a former cavalry drill ground 5 km (3 mi) from the town. It held 25,000 men, with up to 45,000 more assigned to work camps registered there.
Lazarett
  • Bremen. A garrison hospital and also a work camp attached to Soltau.
  • Hamburg Reserve Lazarett VII was a ward of the central prison at Fuhlsbüttel. Reserve Lazarett III was at the Eppendorfer Krankenhaus, and at Veddel there was a Lazarett for Navy personnel.

X Army Corps (Hannover)

Offizierlager
Mannschaftslager
Lazarett
  • Hanover. Lazarett V was in the Royal War School, and there was another at the Garrison Lazarett.
Internierungslager
  • Celle Castle. For civilians and ex-officers.
  • Holzminden. For approximately 4,000–5,000 civilian internees, mainly Polish, Russian, French and Belgian, and including a small number of Britons. Comprised two camps, one for men, the other for women and children.

XI Army Corps (Cassel)

Offizierlager
Mannschaftslager
  • Langensalza. Opened in 1914, the camp held 10,000 men.
  • Ohrdruf. Located on a former Army training ground and held 15,000 men.

XII Army Corps (Dresden)

Offizierlager
Mannschaftslager

XIII Army Corps (Stuttgart)

Mannschaftslager
  • Heilbronn Sub-camp of Stuttgart.
  • Stuttgart. Two camps; one in the city in an abandoned factory building, the other in a disused factory 5 km (3 mi) outside.
  • Ludwigsburg.
Lazarett
  • Kempten. British prisoners quartered in the hospital there.

XIV Army Corps (Karlsruhe)

Offizierlager
  • Karlsruhe. Two camps; one in the grounds of the Karlsruher Schloss contained naval and, later, aviation officers, the other, the former Europäischer Hof, was known as "The Listening Hotel", and was an interrogation centre.
  • Freiburg. Located in an old university building.
  • Heidelberg. In barracks 6 km (4 mi) from town.
  • Ingolstadt. The camps were located in the city fortifications; fortresses 8, 9 & 10. As a camp for persistent escapers, it was the World War I counterpart to Colditz. Documented in the book The Escaping Club by Alfred John Evans.
  • Villingen. The camp was in a disused barracks.
  • Weingarten near Karlsruhe.
Mannschaftslager
  • Ingolstadt. Situated on the edge of the town, holding 4,000 men.
  • Mannheim Located 3 km (2 mi) outside of the city. From February 1917 it used as a clearing or exchange camp for British prisoners of war awaiting repatriation. Held 10,000 men.
Internierungslager
  • Rastatt Camp for French civilians. During 1918 it was used as a military transit camp.

XV Army Corps (Strasbourg)

Offizierlager

XVI Army Corps (Metz)

  • Metz. Known as Lazarett Saint-Clément.

XVII Army Corps (Danzig)

Mannschaftslager
  • Czersk. A camp for Russian POWs, to which British prisoners were also later sent.
  • Danzig (Troyl) The "camp" consists of barges moored on the bank of the Vistula River, each containing from 100 to 500 men. The administration block, kitchen, and other facilities of the camp are on shore. Men from the failed Irish Brigade were sent here.[4]

XVIII Army Corps (Frankfurt-am-Main)

Offizierlager
Mannschaftslager
Lazarett

XIX Army Corps (Leipzig)

Offizierlager
Mannschaftslager
  • Chemnitz. The camp was located in the Friedrich-August Kaserne.
  • Zwickau. The camp held 10,000 POWs.

XX Army Corps (Allenstein)

Mannschaftslager
  • Arys
  • Osterode Located at a locomotive works. A sub-camp of Preußisch Holland.
  • Preußisch Holland. The camp held 15,000 POWs, with up to 35,000 assigned to various work camps registered there.

XXI Army Corps (Saarbrücken)

Offizierlager

I Royal Bavarian Army Corps (Munich)

Mannschaftslager
Lazarett
  • Munich. The large war school in the Mars Platz is used as a hospital, and there is another known as Lazarett B.

II Royal Bavarian Army Corps (Würzburg)

Offizierlager
Mannschaftslager

III Royal Bavarian Army Corps (Nürnberg)

Mannschaftslager
  • Amberg. Held 5,000 POWs.
  • Bayreuth. Held 5,000 POWs.
  • Landau
  • Nuremberg. Located 5 km (3 mi) from the town on an old training ground of the Nuremberg Garrison.
Lazarett

Others

Offizierlager
Mannschaftslager
  • Cassel (Niederzwehren). Held 20,000 POWs.
  • Constance. All officers and men for internment in Switzerland are concentrated here. Held 15,000.
  • Deutsch Gabel Camp for merchant seamen under Austrian administration.
  • Grafenwöhr Camp and Lazarett (Bavarian Corps)
  • Gleiwitz. Located in a cavalry barracks. British prisoners sent there after March 1918.
  • Heustadt. A centre for work camps in East Prussia.
  • Heuberg. Located at the training area Lager Heuberg.
  • Kalisch. Camp for Russian and Romanian soldiers, and also British from April 1918.
  • Kattowitz Camp for Russian and Romanian soldiers, and also British from April 1918.
  • Marienburg A centre for work camps in East Prussia.
  • Neuburg am Inn
  • Ulm. Camp on the outskirts of the town, of the usual barrack type.
  • Zittau Russian POWs.
Lazarett

Fictional prison camps

See also

References

Notes
  1. ^ Steuer (2008) Ch.13, pp.3-6
  2. ^ Pope-Hennessy, Una (1920). Map of the Main Prison Camps in Germany and Austria, with Gazetter and Index. London: Nisbet & Co. Ltd. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
  3. ^ Steuer (2008) Ch.11, p.6
  4. ^ . irishbrigade.eu. 2011. Archived from the original on 20 May 2013. Retrieved 5 May 2012.
  5. ^ . kronach.de. 2012. Archived from the original on 16 December 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2012.
Bibliography
  • Steuer, Kenneth (2008). Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity' : The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I, 1914-1923. New York City: Columbia University Press. Retrieved 5 May 2012.

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Contents 1 Types of camp 2 List of camps by Army Corps districts 2 1 Guards Corps Berlin 2 2 I Army Corps Konigsberg 2 3 II Army Corps Stettin 2 4 III Army Corps Berlin 2 5 IV Army Corps Magdeburg 2 6 V Army Corps Posen 2 7 VI Army Corps Breslau 2 8 VII Army Corps Munster 2 9 VIII Army Corps Coblenz 2 10 IX Army Corps Altona 2 11 X Army Corps Hannover 2 12 XI Army Corps Cassel 2 13 XII Army Corps Dresden 2 14 XIII Army Corps Stuttgart 2 15 XIV Army Corps Karlsruhe 2 16 XV Army Corps Strasbourg 2 17 XVI Army Corps Metz 2 18 XVII Army Corps Danzig 2 19 XVIII Army Corps Frankfurt am Main 2 20 XIX Army Corps Leipzig 2 21 XX Army Corps Allenstein 2 22 XXI Army Corps Saarbrucken 2 23 I Royal Bavarian Army Corps Munich 2 24 II Royal Bavarian Army Corps Wurzburg 2 25 III Royal Bavarian Army Corps Nurnberg 2 26 Others 3 Fictional prison camps 4 See also 5 ReferencesTypes of camp EditKriegsgefangenenlager KGFL Prisoner of war camps were divided into Mannschaftslager Enlisted Men s Camp for private soldiers and NCOs Offizierslager Officer Camp for commissioned officers Internierungslager Internment Camp for civilian enemy aliens Lazarett military hospital for POWs List of camps by Army Corps districts Edit British French and Portuguese prisoners c 1918 French colonial prisoners from North and West Africa French POWs at work at a farm in Westscheid bei Mennighuffen Guards Corps Berlin Edit MannschaftslagerDoberitz A large camp 13 kilometres 8 mi from Berlin holding Russian Polish French and British prisoners including men of the Royal Naval Division captured at the Siege of Antwerp Dyrotz near Wustermark LazarettBerlin Located on Alexandrinenstrasse I Army Corps Konigsberg Edit None found II Army Corps Stettin Edit MannschaftslagerAltdamm Three camps holding 15 000 men Schneidemuhl Located 5 km 3 mi from the town this was a centre for work camps in the region holding 40 000 80 000 men Stargard Stettin Stralsund LazarettThorn III Army Corps Berlin Edit Kriegsgefangenenlager Crossen 1914 MannschaftslagerBrandenburg an der Havel Camp for Naval and Merchant Marine personnel Cottbus A sub camp of Merzdorf Crossen an der Oder Frankfurt an der Oder 6 km 4 mi from the town holding 18 000 men Guben from the town Merzdorf Muncheberg Spandau Camp for POWs working at a chemical factory Zossen A camp 30 km 20 mi south of Berlin for British and French troops from India and Africa The POWs were subjected to propaganda urging them to revolt against their colonial masters with little result 3 InternierungslagerHavelberg For 4 500 internees of various nationalities including nearly 400 British IndiansIV Army Corps Magdeburg Edit OffizierlagerBurg bei Magdeburg Camp for 900 prisoners Halle Camp in a disused factory Magdeburg Camp on an island in the river Torgau Two camps in Bruckenkopf Barracks and in Fort Zinna MannschaftslagerGardelegen Camp opened in September 1914 Grabow Formerly a military camp consisting of eight compounds of six barracks each Merseburg An assembly camp holding up to 25 000 prisoners from which men were drafted to work camps Quedlinburg A camp 4 km 2 1 2 mi from the town holding 12 000 men Wittenberg A camp 4 2 hectares 10 1 2 acres in area at Klein Wittenberg 3 km 2 mi from the city Eight compounds held 13 000 men Zerbst A camp at an infantry drill ground 3 km 2 mi north of the city It held up to 15 000 men but there were 100 000 registered there the majority engaged in industry and agriculture Internierungslager Ruhleben internment camp detainees queuing for Christmas dinner painting by Nico Jungman Ruhleben Camp for up to 4 500 internees 10 km 6 mi from Berlin located at a racecourse V Army Corps Posen Edit MannschaftslagerLauban Sagan A camp 8 km 5 mi from the town holding 6 000 men Skalmierschutz A very large camp for Russians and Romanians to which British and American prisoners were sent in early 1918 Sprottau A camp 5 km 3 mi from the town and also a Lazarett for prisoners with tuberculosis Stralkowo A camp 5 km 3 mi from the town holding mainly Russians and Romanians and British from March 1918 VI Army Corps Breslau Edit OffizierlagerGnadenfrei Situated in a former boys school Neisse Located in former military academy in the centre of the town Schweidnitz MannschaftslagerLamsdorf A camp at a military training ground that was reopened during World War II as Stalag VIII B Neuhammer A clearing camp for Upper Silesia 100 000 men were registered there but were mostly in work camps under its administration LazarettBeuthen Two large Lazaretts containing British prisoners from early 1918 VII Army Corps Munster Edit OffizierlagerGutersloh Originally a sanatorium Werl Located in a Franciscan monastery WeselMannschaftslagerBurg Steinfurt A camp for British prisoners Dortmund Duisburg Dulmen Dusseldorf Erfurt Held 15 000 men Friedrichsfeld Camp holding 35 000 men Hammerstein A camp for Russian prisoners Heilsberg Minden A camp 5 km 3 mi from the town with 18 000 men Munster There were four camps Munster I was outside the city in open farming country Munster II was at the racecourse Rennbahn Munster III was a former Army barracks and Munster IV was reserved for Russian prisoners Sennelager Three camps just north of Paderborn named Senne I II amp III Stendal The camp lay 2 km 1 mi north east of the town and was the parent camp for a number of work camps holding 15 000 men Tuchel A camp for Russians and Romanians also holding British and American prisoners from 1918 LazarettPaderborn VIII Army Corps Coblenz Edit OffizierlagerCrefeld There was also a Lazarett there MannschaftslagerLimburg an der Lahn A camp holding 12 000 men in which Irish prisoners were concentrated for the purpose of recruiting for the Irish Brigade Meschede The camp just outside the town held 10 000 POWs Wahn Located 30 km 20 mi south east of Cologne at the Wahner Heide Artillery practice camp The camp had 35 000 men on its register and was a parent camp for work camps in the district LazarettAachen Nine hospitals for British POWs awaiting repatriation Coblenz Cologne Several hospitals British prisoners were treated either in the Garrison Lazarett I or the Kaiserin Augusta Schule Lazarett VI Trier Officer prisoners were treated in the Reserve Lazarett IV Horn Kaserne IX Army Corps Altona Edit OffizierlagerAugustabad Neubrandenburg A former hotel holding British officers Conrad O Brien ffrench was held there Furstenberg MannschaftslagerGustrow Situated in pine woods 5 km 3 mi from the town It held 25 000 men with a further 25 000 assigned to work camps registered there Lubeck A camp for men employed at the docks Also a reserve Lazarett Neumunster Parchim A camp built on a former cavalry drill ground 5 km 3 mi from the town It held 25 000 men with up to 45 000 more assigned to work camps registered there LazarettBremen A garrison hospital and also a work camp attached to Soltau Hamburg Reserve Lazarett VII was a ward of the central prison at Fuhlsbuttel Reserve Lazarett III was at the Eppendorfer Krankenhaus and at Veddel there was a Lazarett for Navy personnel X Army Corps Hannover Edit Holzminden officers camp OffizierlagerBad Blenhorst near Nienburg Celle At Scheuen and until late 1916 also Reserve Lazarett I St Joseph Clausthal Hesepe nr Osnabruck Holzminden For 500 600 British officers plus approximately 100 160 other ranks orderlies Housed in a former cavalry barracks built 1913 The site of a noted tunnel escape in July 1918 Osnabruck Camp located in a former artillery barracks Strohen Schwarmstedt Wahmbeck At a hotel holding mostly officers from the merchant service MannschaftslagerGottingen Hameln Located 2 km 1 mi from Hameln and the parent camp of many work camps Munster Camp opened in 1914 near Soltau on Luneburg Heath Salzwedel Soltau The camp held 35 000 men but had 50 000 assigned to work camps registered there LazarettHanover Lazarett V was in the Royal War School and there was another at the Garrison Lazarett Internierungslager Holzminden internment camp Celle Castle For civilians and ex officers Holzminden For approximately 4 000 5 000 civilian internees mainly Polish Russian French and Belgian and including a small number of Britons Comprised two camps one for men the other for women and children XI Army Corps Cassel Edit OffizierlagerBad Colberg Camp housed in a former sanatorium MannschaftslagerLangensalza Opened in 1914 the camp held 10 000 men Ohrdruf Located on a former Army training ground and held 15 000 men XII Army Corps Dresden Edit OffizierlagerBischofswerda Konigstein French and Russians held in the Fortress MannschaftslagerBautzen Konigsbruck Held 15 000 men XIII Army Corps Stuttgart Edit MannschaftslagerHeilbronn Sub camp of Stuttgart Stuttgart Two camps one in the city in an abandoned factory building the other in a disused factory 5 km 3 mi outside Ludwigsburg LazarettKempten British prisoners quartered in the hospital there XIV Army Corps Karlsruhe Edit OffizierlagerKarlsruhe Two camps one in the grounds of the Karlsruher Schloss contained naval and later aviation officers the other the former Europaischer Hof was known as The Listening Hotel and was an interrogation centre Freiburg Located in an old university building Heidelberg In barracks 6 km 4 mi from town Ingolstadt The camps were located in the city fortifications fortresses 8 9 amp 10 As a camp for persistent escapers it was the World War I counterpart to Colditz Documented in the book The Escaping Club by Alfred John Evans Villingen The camp was in a disused barracks Weingarten near Karlsruhe MannschaftslagerIngolstadt Situated on the edge of the town holding 4 000 men Mannheim Located 3 km 2 mi outside of the city From February 1917 it used as a clearing or exchange camp for British prisoners of war awaiting repatriation Held 10 000 men InternierungslagerRastatt Camp for French civilians During 1918 it was used as a military transit camp XV Army Corps Strasbourg Edit OffizierlagerStrasbourgXVI Army Corps Metz Edit Metz Known as Lazarett Saint Clement XVII Army Corps Danzig Edit MannschaftslagerCzersk A camp for Russian POWs to which British prisoners were also later sent Danzig Troyl The camp consists of barges moored on the bank of the Vistula River each containing from 100 to 500 men The administration block kitchen and other facilities of the camp are on shore Men from the failed Irish Brigade were sent here 4 XVIII Army Corps Frankfurt am Main Edit OffizierlagerBingen am Rhein Friedberg Griesheim nr Frankfurt Mainz The camp was in the grounds of the Mainz Citadel and held 700 POWs Rosenberg Located in Festung Rosenberg above the town of Kronach Charles de Gaulle was held as a POW there 5 Weilburg POWs were held in a three storied school house MannschaftslagerDarmstadt Located 6 km 4 mi from the town on a cavalry exercise ground Giessen Gorlitz Held 14 000 POWs LazarettJulich Kreuznach For up to around 600 prisoner patients XIX Army Corps Leipzig Edit OffizierlagerDobelnMannschaftslagerChemnitz The camp was located in the Friedrich August Kaserne Zwickau The camp held 10 000 POWs XX Army Corps Allenstein Edit MannschaftslagerArys Osterode Located at a locomotive works A sub camp of Preussisch Holland Preussisch Holland The camp held 15 000 POWs with up to 35 000 assigned to various work camps registered there XXI Army Corps Saarbrucken Edit OffizierlagerNeunkirchen Located in a former monastery Saarbrucken In a former school Saarlouis Zweibrucken British officers were first sent there in 1916 I Royal Bavarian Army Corps Munich Edit MannschaftslagerLandsberg am Lech Lechfeld Held 10 500 POWs Puchheim Located on a military airfield 13 km 8 mi from Munich Held 12 000 POWs LazarettMunich The large war school in the Mars Platz is used as a hospital and there is another known as Lazarett B II Royal Bavarian Army Corps Wurzburg Edit OffizierlagerWurzburg Located in Festung Marienberg MannschaftslagerHammelburg Germersheim Held 6 000 men Wurzburg Outside the town on a high hill III Royal Bavarian Army Corps Nurnberg Edit MannschaftslagerAmberg Held 5 000 POWs Bayreuth Held 5 000 POWs Landau Nuremberg Located 5 km 3 mi from the town on an old training ground of the Nuremberg Garrison LazarettErlangen For officers only Others Edit OffizierlagerEutin Graudenz Lahr British from 1917 Landshut Ludwigshafen From 1917 Munden Camp for up to 600 officers located in a former factory 2 km 1 mi from the town Osnabruck Pforzheim From early 1918 StrasbourgMannschaftslagerCassel Niederzwehren Held 20 000 POWs Constance All officers and men for internment in Switzerland are concentrated here Held 15 000 Deutsch Gabel Camp for merchant seamen under Austrian administration Grafenwohr Camp and Lazarett Bavarian Corps Gleiwitz Located in a cavalry barracks British prisoners sent there after March 1918 Heustadt A centre for work camps in East Prussia Heuberg Located at the training area Lager Heuberg Kalisch Camp for Russian and Romanian soldiers and also British from April 1918 Kattowitz Camp for Russian and Romanian soldiers and also British from April 1918 Marienburg A centre for work camps in East Prussia Neuburg am Inn Ulm Camp on the outskirts of the town of the usual barrack type Zittau Russian POWs LazarettFrankfurt am Main Several hospitals for British prisoners Reserve Lazarett II and H65 are the principal ones Ingolstadt Two hospitals in the town RatisbonFictional prison camps EditLuft 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 The Great Escape Dusterstadt in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones film episode Chapter 8 Trenches of Hell See also EditGerman camps in occupied Poland during World War II Lists of World War II prisoner of war camps World War I prisoners of war in GermanyReferences EditNotes Steuer 2008 Ch 13 pp 3 6 Pope Hennessy Una 1920 Map of the Main Prison Camps in Germany and Austria with Gazetter and Index London Nisbet amp Co Ltd Retrieved 4 May 2012 Steuer 2008 Ch 11 p 6 Danzig Prisoner of War Camp in WWI irishbrigade eu 2011 Archived from the original on 20 May 2013 Retrieved 5 May 2012 History of the Fortress kronach de 2012 Archived from the original on 16 December 2014 Retrieved 5 May 2012 BibliographySteuer Kenneth 2008 Pursuit of an Unparalleled Opportunity The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I 1914 1923 New York City Columbia University Press Retrieved 5 May 2012 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title German prisoner of war camps in World War I amp oldid 1130770943, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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