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![]() | Map of POW Camps Does anyone have access to a map showing all the POW camps in Germany & German held territories. ![]()
__________________ 52nd Airborne. Remembering the fallen from the 5th Hampshire Regiment and The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. |
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http://www.cavillconnections.co.uk/powcamps.htm
__________________ Spidge, ![]() ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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![]() | Hello 52nd Airborne Last week a friend was showing me a very detailed map , but it may have been of concentration camps . Since then , they have the house upside down for electrical work . Are you still looking for these maps ? Trincomalee |
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![]() | Hi Trincomalee I now have a map, but I'm always willing to accept more!
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![]() | Thanks for posting Nick, There is some interesting stuff on that website.
__________________ 52nd Airborne. Remembering the fallen from the 5th Hampshire Regiment and The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. |
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![]() ![]() | Some interesting POW websites from among my list. Stalag Luft III PoW camp, Sagan. Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945 - The Men - Prisoners of War World War Two - German Prisoners of War POW Camps Rowlands Gill and the North-East 1939-1945 BRIDGEND GERMAN POW CAMP, ISLAND FARM CAMP 198 / SPECIAL CAMP XI The Wartime Memories Project - STALAG XXA POW Camp Prisoners of War WW2 Prisoners of War, Killed while POW's Contents, Canadian POW camps, by David Carter. KCPT-OVER HERE- Maps Prisoners of War | NZETC
__________________ Spidge, ![]() ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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![]() | See at this link: German POW camps from WW II (a few) An example of maps: Stalag 1B at Hohenstein, ![]() Jan.
__________________ 73 y buenos DX de Jan7 La llave de la libertad es la sabiduría. El cerrojo de la esclavitud la ignorancia http://www.u-historia.com History of U-Bootwaffe in Spanish http://www.tradiweb.com/ta.htm Translator online |
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![]() | Interesting stuff there! I wish I had the time to work with those overall maps, and make up some kind of new comprehensive presentation! Imagine being able to click on a marker on the main map, and go right to a drawing of the camp! |
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