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Bookmark or Share- German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union - WikipediaApproximately three million German prisoners of war were captured by the Soviet Union during World War II, most of them during the great advances of the Red Army in the last year of the war. The POWs were employed as forced labor in the Soviet wartime economy and post-war reconstruction.
- German POWs on the American Homefront | SmithsonianFrom 1942 through 1945, more than 400,000 Axis prisoners were shipped to the United States and detained in camps in rural areas across the country. Some 500 POW facilities were built, mainly in...
- German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II - WikipediaNazi 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.
- Mine Enemy: The story of German POWs in AmericaNearly 400,0000 German war prisoners landed on American shores between 1942 and 1945, after their capture in Europe and North Africa. They bunked in U.S. Army barracks and hastily constructed camps across the country, especially in the South and Southwest.
- The Enemy in Colorado: German Prisoners of War, 1943-46The Enemy in Colorado: German Prisoners of War, 1943-46 - Countless books, movies, and other media tell the tale of Allied POWs during the Second World War. The very different experiences of the Axis POWs detained on American soil are often overlooked.
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