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located on an 18-hectare field alongside Ulica LubaĆska, renamed as Stalag VIIIâA on 23 September 1939. Polish POWs who were either deported west to
Germany or sent to nearby
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Italian Armistice (JulyâDecember 1943). II: Transit and Permanent Camps in Germany and Austria". In Kippenberger, Howard Karl (ed.).
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(SpindlerpaĂstraĂe) 1940â1942".
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prisoners. Over 1,500 Jews were deported from the camp to
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1236:The Wartime Memories Project
567:Quatuor pour la fin du temps
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843:Lusek, Goetze, pp. 43â45
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1281:Stalag II-D Stargard
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1217:Indiana Military Org
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408:British Commonwealth
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209:Garrison information
157:Prisoner-of-war camp
1379:Stalag Luft I Barth
1306:Stalag 344 Lamsdorf
1212:Tattersall, Peter.
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602:In 2011 the German
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