Название: Stalag XXA and the Enforced March from Poland
Автор: Stephen Wynn
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526754460
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 168
Размер: 16,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

Stalag XXA was a Second World War German POW camp for noncommissioned officers located in Nazi occupied Torun, in northern Poland. The camp consisted of fifteen forts, which in September 1939, under the name of Stalag 357, was used to house Polish POWs who were captured after German forces had taken the Polish fort at Westerplatte. British POWs didn’t arrive at the camp until June 1940, and were those captured during the Allied campaign in Norway, the evacuations of the British at Dunkirk, and the men of the 51st (Highland) Division at St. Valery. At its peak, the camp housed more than 10,000 men and was liberated by Russian forces on 1 February 1945.