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The mother of a prisoner thanks Chancellor Konrad Adenauer upon his return from Moscow on September 14, 1955. Adenauer had succeeded in concluding negotiations for the release to Germany by the end of the year of 15,000 German civilians and prisoners of war Prisoners returning in 1955
[22]: 48–49 [14]: 34–37 Prisoners were expected during wartime to attempt to escape, [11] but less than 1% of all prisoners of war in America attempted to escape, however—about half the rate of Italian prisoners [14]: 7 and less than the rate in the civilian prison system [21] — and most were unsuccessful.
The Rheinwiesenlager (German: [ˈʁaɪnˌviːzn̩ˌlaːɡɐ], Rhine meadow camps) were a group of 19 concentration camps built in the Allied-occupied part of Germany by the U.S. Army to hold captured German soldiers at the close of the Second World War. Officially named Prisoner of War Temporary Enclosures (PWTE), they held between one and ...
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, and released many (particularly enlisted personnel) on parole (as a result, it released all the Dutch, all Flemish Belgian, nine-tenths of the Poles, and nearly a third of the French captives).
German prisoners of war in World War II (5 C, 202 P) Pages in category "German prisoners of war" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
The Western Allies also took 134,000 German soldiers prisoner in North Africa, [10] and at least 220,000 by the start of 1945 in the Italian campaign. [10] The total haul of German POWs held by the Western Allies by April 30, 1945, in all theatres of war was over 3,150,000, rising in northwest Europe to 7,614,790 after the end of the war. [11]
Pages in category "German prisoners of war in World War II held by the Soviet Union" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 362 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. (previous page)
German prisoner-of-war camps in World War I; German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II This page was last edited on 14 July 2020, at 16:09 (UTC). Text is ...