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    The Halbmondlager (known in English as the "Half Moon Camp") was a prisoner-of-war camp in Wünsdorf (now part of Zossen), Germany, during the First World...
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    prisoner-of-war camp named "Half Moon" (Halbmondlager) in Zossen-Wünsdorf near Berlin. As its name suggests, the Halbmondlager was specifically intended for Muslim...
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    The Wünsdorf Mosque, at the Halbmondlager POW camp, was Germany's first mosque, built in 1915; it was demolished between 1925 and 1926....
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    site of several prisoner-of-war camps, including the "crescent camp" (Halbmondlager for Muslims who had fought for the Triple Entente), where the first...
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    propaganda directed at Indian PoWs in German camps, particularly the Halbmondlager. Soon branches sprang up in Amsterdam, Stockholm, and Washington, as...
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  • standing mosque in Germany—the Wünsdorf Mosque, built in 1915 at the Halbmondlager POW camp, was Germany's first, but it was demolished in 1925–26. Berlin...
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    Venice Biennale. In 1916, he created a sensation when he visited the Halbmondlager, near Zossen, to paint six prisoners of war from North Africa. He died...
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  • initially held as a prisoner of war at Zerbst in Germany and later at the Halbmondlager POW camp where he and Douglas Grant were the only Australian aboriginal...
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    400 Tatars were buried. In the city, there was also a war camp called Halbmondlager. During his time at the camp, Idris was a reporter of multiple magazines...
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    e.g. by publishing the respected quality journal "Der Neue Orient". Halbmondlager Mosque of the Bois de Vincennes Popplewell 1995, pp. 175–186 Liebau...
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