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Barrack 3 of the guard of Stalag VII-A in 2013. After the liberation Stalag VII-A was turned into Civilian Internment Camp #6 for 12,000 German men and women suspected of criminal activity for the Nazi regime. Later the camp was turned into a new district of the town called Moosburg-Neustadt. [1] One of the old huts has been restored. [citation ...
29 April 1945 – Stalag VII-A at Moosburg was liberated by Patton's Third United States Army. 30 April 1945 – Berlin falls to the Red Army and Hitler commits suicide. 4 May 1945 – German forces surrendered on Lüneburg Heath. 10 May 1945 – The last POWs evacuated from Stalag 357 / Stalag XI-B at Fallingbostel are liberated.
Moosburg an der Isar (Central Bavarian: Mooschbuag on da Isa) is a town in the Landkreis Freising of Bavaria, Germany. The oldest town between Regensburg and Italy , it lies on the river Isar at an altitude of 421 m (1381 ft).
In Germany, stalag (/ ˈ s t æ l æ ɡ /; German:) was a term used for prisoner-of-war camps. Stalag is a contraction of " Sta mm lag er", itself short for Kriegsgefangenen-Mannschaftsstammlager , literally "main camp for enlisted prisoners of war" (officers were kept in an " Oflag ").
Stalag II-D was the fourth Stalag in Military District II (Wehrkreis II). Sub-camps had a suffix "/Z" (for Zweiglager - sub-camp). The main camp had a suffix of "/H" (for Hauptlager - main camp). e.g. Oflag VII-C/H meant this is the main camp. Oflag VII-C/Z meant this is a sub-camp of a main camp.
Otherwise, searches for this page using the correct nomencalture will not find it. Before making changes to articles, be sure of your facts, and learn how to edit. I suggest that you register as an editor. Syrenab 13:08, 2 October 2006 (UTC) As verified by the ID-tag photo on the page, the German official designation was Stalag VII/A. OK. the ...
Albert C. Smith was born on June 5, 1894, in Warrenton, Virginia, as the son of Eugene Albert and Blanch Baker Smith.Following the graduation from the Gordon Military Institute in Barnesville, Georgia, he sought for an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, but it was hard to come by, so he entered the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Virginia ...
The reason that the camp had many amenities was Swedish attorney Henry Söderberg (d. 1998), [4] who was the YMCA representative to the area, and frequently visited the camps (including Stalag Luft III, famous for "The Great Escape") bearing gift items that furnished each camp with a band and orchestra, a well-equipped library, and sports ...