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Stalag XX-A was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp located in Toruń in German-occupied Poland. It was not a single camp and contained as many as 20,000 men at its peak. The main camp was located in seven forts of the 19th-century Toruń Fortress, located in the southern part of the city. [1]
Toruń (marked in red as Thorn) near the 19th-century German/Prussian and Russian border in partitioned Poland (also marked in red). Toruń was an important city, which following the Partitions of Poland was located just north and west of the border between Prussia and Russia, which runs from southwest to northeast, in the north along the Drwęca tributary of the Vistula River which passes ...
Toruń is situated at a major road junction, one of the most important in Poland. The A1 highway reaches Toruń, and a southern beltway surrounds the city. Besides these, the European route E75 and a number of domestic roads (numbered 10, 15, and 80) run through the city.
The KS Apator Toruń speedway team won the league championship while based at the stadium in 1986 and 1990. Plans for a new speedway stadium arose in 2008 and the last league match held at the KS Apator Stadium was a Team Speedway Polish Championship match against Unia Leszno during the 2008 season , played on 19 October.
In September 1944 Stalag 357 was moved from Toruń in German-occupied Poland to the site of the former XI-D, with construction being carried out by the Italian POW from XI-B. This new camp was used to house mostly British and Commonwealth POWs. [2]
Military bases of Poland in Afghanistan (3 P) Attacks on military installations in Poland (1 C, 14 P) F. Fortifications in Poland (5 C, 4 P) Forts in Poland (3 C, 15 ...
Category: Military locations of Poland. ... World War II sites in Poland (8 C, 61 P) This page was last edited on 15 February 2024, at 08:00 (UTC). ...
Warsaw Military District, in Warsaw (Readiness level C, would have formed 4th Combined-Arms Army with 64,700 soldiers in wartime) 1st Warsaw Mechanized Division , in Legionowo 11th Tank Regiment, in Giżycko