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patients with starvation." To aid the prisoners, the Poles of
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were brought to the camp. Also some Dutch, Belgian and Polish POWs were brought there. In
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which started World War II, as a Dulag transit camp for Poles. It was located in over 30 buildings and places throughout the town. Some 22,000 Polish POWs and 12,000 Polish civilians passed through the camp. Also
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were imprisoned in the camp in 1942. Local Poles continued their assistance to Polish and other Allied POWs, by smuggling medical and sanitary supplies, and even
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In 1943, surviving POWs were moved to other locations, and the camp was dissolved to make space for the
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Wehrmachtu w okupowanym Ostrzeszowie i polsko-norweska pamięć o nich".
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facilitated the escape of five Polish POWs from the camp in March 1940, and also smuggled
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It was one of four main German POW camps in the
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Graf, Władysław (1992b). "Ostrzeszów: obozy jenieckie okresu 1939–1940. Część 2".
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