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Pages in category "Austrian prisoners of war" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Stalag XVIII-A was a World War II German Army (Wehrmacht) prisoner-of-war camp located to the south of the town of Wolfsberg, in the southern Austrian state of Carinthia, then a part of Nazi Germany. A sub-camp Stalag XVIII-A/Z was later opened in Spittal an der Drau about 100 km (62 mi) to the west.
Gregory "Pappy" Boyington – US Marine Corps Fighter Ace during WWII, Medal of Honor recipient; Fernand Braudel – historian, was a POW in WWII; Frank Buckles – the last surviving American veteran of WWI, was a civilian during WWII when imprisoned by the Japanese; Roger Bushell – South African-born RAF Squadron Leader. Masterminded the ...
Austrian Waffen-SS personnel (1 C, 22 P) Pages in category "Austrian military personnel of World War II" The following 75 pages are in this category, out of 75 total.
List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the United States; Axis prisoner-of-war camps during World War II. List of prisoner-of-war camps in Germany;
Italian soldiers taken prisoner by the Allies during Operation Compass (1941). Most prisoners, after being captured, spent the war in the prisoner of war camps.In the early phases of the war, following German occupation of much of Europe, Germany also found itself unprepared for the number of POWs it held.
This is a list of internment and concentration camps, organized by country.In general, a camp or group of camps is designated to the country whose government was responsible for the establishment and/or operation of the camp regardless of the camp's location, but this principle can be, or it can appear to be, departed from in such cases as where a country's borders or name has changed or it ...
The camp was officially opened on 25 May 1940, when the first prisoners and guards moved in. [16] [13] [8] The camp was directly adjacent to the road between Sankt Georgen an der Gusen and nearby Langenstein; [17] [10] former prisoners recalled Austrian children passing by on the way to school. Until the camp wall was completed, passerby had a ...