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This article deals with the history of the largest Polish POW camp for NCOs and privates in the part of Germany that was occupied after the end of the war by the American 3rd Army. The camp was set up in the spring of 1945 and its population peaked at c. 5,000 Polish servicemen. Initially the Polish side hoped that the men gathered there would beef up the Polish Armed Forces in the West. However,...
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