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    der Lahn Stalag XII-B Frankenthal/Palatinate Stalag XII-C Wiebelsheim/Rhein Stalag XII-D Trier/Petrisberg (Trèves) Stalag XII-E Metz Stalag XII-F Forbach...
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    Stalag VIII-B was most recently a German Army administered POW camp during World War II, later renumbered Stalag-344, located near the village of Lamsdorf...
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    actual escape from Stalag Luft III. Pleasence, who had been an aircraft wireless operator with No. 166 Squadron, was imprisoned in Stalag Luft I after his...
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    POWs of various nationalities, incl. the Stalag 331 C/I-C and Stalag I-D camps for regular soldiers, the Stalag Luft VI camp for airmen, and the Oflag 53...
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  • Bram van der Stok (category Participants in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III)
    most decorated aviator in Dutch history. In March 1944, he broke out of Stalag Luft III – a prisoner-of-war camp in Nazi Germany – during the mass break-out...
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  • In 1983, they reenacted an interrogation at a reunion held in Chicago of Stalag Luft III POWs.[citation needed] Scharff also interrogated Col. Hubert Zemke...
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    River. During the war, the Germans operated a forced labour subcamp of the Stalag I-A prisoner-of-war camp for Allied POWs in the town, and expelled Poles...
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    and only the navigator F/O Harry King escaped. He was made a POW the following morning, spending the rest of the war in Stalag Luft I at Barth, Germany...
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    (1953). In 1953, Heston was Billy Wilder's first choice to play Sefton in Stalag 17. However, the role was given to William Holden, who won an Oscar for...
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    October 1941, the Germans relocated the Stalag II F prisoner-of-war camp from Czarne to Przemyśl and renamed it Stalag 315, with some POWs, including Jews...
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