What is a Stalag camp?

What is a Stalag camp?

: a German prison camp for noncommissioned officers or enlisted men broadly : prison camp sense 2.

Was there really a Stalag 13?

History of the Real Stalag 13. Stalag 13 didn’t just exist in the celluloid world of Hogan’s Heroes. There really was a POW camp called Stalag 13 (or Stalag XIII C) on the outskirts of Hammelburg, about 50 miles (80 km) east of Frankfurt.

When was Stalag 17B?

9 May 1945
In April, 1945, 4,000 of the POWs at Stalag 17-B began an 18-day march of 281 miles to Braunau, Austria. The remaining 900 men were too ill to make the march and were left behind in the hospitals. These men were liberated on 9 May 1945 by the Russians.

What were German POW camps called?

Stalag
Stalag or Stammlager (“Base camp”) – These were enlisted personnel POW camps. Stalag Luft or Luftwaffe-Stammlager (“Luftwaffe base camp”) – These were POW camps administered by the German Air Force for Allied aircrews.