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World War II prisoner-of-war camps in Germany (1 C, 76 P) Pages in category "World War II sites in Germany" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total.
World War II sites in Germany (11 C, 37 P) German World War II defensive lines (2 C, 23 P) N. Nazi subterranea (2 C, 10 P) P. Peenemünde Army Research Center and ...
According to the Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, there were 23 main concentration camps (German: Stammlager), of which most had a system of satellite camps. [1] ...
Nazi Germany operated around 1,000 prisoner-of-war camps (German: Kriegsgefangenenlager) during World War II (1939-1945). [ 1 ] The most common types of camps were Oflags ("Officer camp") and Stalags ("Base camp" – for enlisted personnel POW camps), although other less common types existed as well.
Operation Crossbow (Bombing of Peenemünde in World War II) The Peenemünde Army Research Center (German: Heeresversuchsanstalt Peenemünde , [ a ] HVP ) was founded in 1937 as one of five military proving grounds under the German Army Weapons Office ( Heereswaffenamt ).
During the Final Solution of the Holocaust, Nazi Germany created six extermination camps to carry out the systematic genocide of the Jews in German-occupied Europe.All the camps were located in the General Government area of German-occupied Poland, with the exception of Chelmno, which was located in the Reichsgau Wartheland of German-occupied Poland.
Reichsparteitag 1934, Luitpoldarena, "Totenehrung" (honouring of dead): SS leader Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler and SA leader Viktor Lutze on the terrace in front of the "Ehrenhalle" (Hall of Honour); in the background: the crescent-shaped "Ehrentribüne" (literally: tribune of honour) First Party Congress in Nuremberg (1927) Mock-up of the Rally grounds in their planned finished shape at the ...
German fortresses (German: Festungen or Fester Platz, lit. ' fixed place '; called pockets by the Allies) during World War II were bridgeheads, cities, islands and towns designated by Adolf Hitler as areas that were to be fortified and stocked with food and ammunition in order to hold out against Allied offensives.