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There were 40 known prisoner-of-war camps across Canada during World War II, although this number also includes internment camps that held Canadians of German and Japanese descent. [1] Several reliable sources indicate that there were only 25 or 26 camps holding exclusively prisoners from foreign countries, nearly all from Germany. [2] [3] [4]
Top: Kanada warehouses, c. May 1944. The Kanada warehouses, also known as Effektenlager or simply Kanada, were storage facilities in the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland during the Holocaust. The buildings were used to store the stolen belongings of prisoners, mostly Jews who had been murdered in the gas chambers on ...
The history of Canada during World War II begins with the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939. While the Canadian Armed Forces were eventually active in nearly every theatre of war, most combat was centred in Italy, [ 1] Northwestern Europe, [ 2] and the North Atlantic. In all, some 1.1 million Canadians served in the Canadian Army ...
1944 map of POW camps in Germany. American Red Cross German POW Camp Map from December 31, 1944. Nazi Germany operated around 1,000 prisoner-of-war camps ( German: Kriegsgefangenenlager) during World War II (1939-1945). [ 1] Germany signed the Third Geneva Convention of 1929, which established norms relating to the treatment of prisoners of war.
v. t. e. The German camps in occupied Poland during World War II were built by the Nazis between 1939 and 1945 throughout the territory of the Polish Republic, both in the areas annexed in 1939, and in the General Government formed by Nazi Germany in the central part of the country (see map). After the 1941 German attack on the Soviet Union, a ...
Sobibor (May 1942 – November 1943). Located near the village of Sobibór, approximately 80 km (50 mi) east of Lublin. [ 4] Treblinka (July 1942 – September 1943). Located near the village of Treblinka, approximately 80 kilometres (50 miles) northeast of Warsaw. [ b][ 5] Majdanek (October 1942 – July 1944).
Camp X was the unofficial name of the secret Special Training School No. 103, a Second World War British paramilitary installation for training covert agents in the methods required for success in clandestine operations. [ 1] It was located on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario between Whitby and Oshawa in Ontario, Canada.
Nazi Germany used six extermination camps ( German: Vernichtungslager ), also called death camps ( Todeslager ), or killing centers ( Tötungszentren ), in Central Europe, primarily Occupied Poland, during World War II to systematically murder over 2.7 million people – mostly Jews – in the Holocaust. [ 1][ 2][ 3] The victims of death camps ...