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Pow Wow (stylised in all caps) was a German underground newspaper, run by prisoners of war in the Stalag Luft I camp in Nazi Germany.Its name stood for Prisoners Of War - Waiting On Winning and its motto was "The only truthful newspaper in Germany - to be read silently, quickly, and in groups of three".
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, and released many (particularly enlisted personel) on parole (as a result, it released all the Dutch, all Flemish Belgian, nine-tenths of the Poles, and nearly a third ...
This is an incomplete list of Japanese-run military prisoner-of-war and civilian internment and concentration camps during World War II. Some of these camps were for prisoners of war (POW) only. Some also held a mixture of POWs and civilian internees, while others held solely civilian internees.
Stalag VIII-C was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp, near Sagan, Lower Silesia (now Żagań, Poland).It was adjacent to the famous Stalag Luft III, and was built at the beginning of World War II, occupying 48 ha (120 acres).
At some time during the war, prisoners from every nation fighting against Germany passed through it. At the time of its liberation on 29 April 1945, there were 76,248 prisoners in the main camp and 40,000 or more in Arbeitskommando working in factories, repairing railroads or on farms. [1] [2] [3] Key to main gate of Stalag VII-A, Moosburg, Germany
Between 6.6–9 million soldiers surrendered and were held in prisoner-of-war camps during World War I. [1] [2]25–31% of Russian losses (as a proportion of those captured, wounded, or killed) were to prisoner status, for Austria-Hungary 32%, for Italy 26%, for France 12%, for Germany 9%; for Britain 7%.
Aliceville was the largest [4] of the eleven POW camps in the Southeastern U.S. [1] By the end of the war Camp Aliceville held German prisoners captured in many different locations. [2] It closed on September 30, 1945. [2] The camp was dismantled and sold for scrap after the war, [3] and its only remaining trace is an old stone chimney. [2]
Most notorious of these was the concentration camp, Fort VII, which was predominately used to house Polish prisoners. Some other forts, along with forced labour camp locations in the surrounding countryside, were used to hold PoWs. [3] These collectively formed Stalag XXI-D and accommodated just over 3,000 prisoners in total. [4]