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1944 map of POW camps in Germany. Nazi Germany operated around 1,000 prisoner-of-war camps (German: Kriegsgefangenenlager) during World War II (1939-1945). [ 1 ] Germany signed the Third Geneva Convention of 1929, which established norms relating to the treatment of prisoners of war.
For lists of German prisoner-of-war camps, see: German prisoner-of-war camps in World War I; German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II
Stalag XXI-D was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp based in Poznań in German-occupied Poland, operated in 1940–1945. It held Polish, French , British, Belgian, Dutch, Serbian, Soviet and Italian POWs.
After March 1938, when Germany annexed Austria in an event known as Anschluss thousands of German and Austrian Jews were arrested and detained in Dachau, Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen concentration camps.
Between 1939 and 1945, there existed in Lamsdorf a complex of German POW camps which had been organized and modelled on other camps of this type in the Third Reich. The first camp was established here on 26 August 1939, in the south-eastern part of the Lamsdorf military range.
In the time of World War 2, the area saw a German camp organized, which constituted a part of the Lamsdorf POW complex – one of the largest of the kind in Europe. The camp was organized already in August 1939 as a transitory one (Dulag B).
Millions of people suffered and died in camps, ghettos, and other sites during the Holocaust. The Nazis and their allies oversaw more than 44,000 camps, ghettos, and other sites of detention, persecution, forced labor, and murder. Among them was Mannschafts-Stammlager (Stalag) IX B.
