Stalag

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Acronym	Definition
Stalag	Stammlager (main camp; Germany WWII)

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tells the story of Mendel, Russian-Jewish watchmender and Soviet Army straggler, whose solitary existence living in a forest hideaway is interrupted by the chance arrival of another Russian Jew, Leonid, recently escaped from a German Stammlager for Soviet POWs.

Wartime resistance and republican political agency in Primo Levi's partisan novel

Nash ended up in Stammlager Luft 17-B, a special prison camp in the Austrian wilderness that held 4,200 airmen.

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The core of this facility was Auschwitz I, which acted as the Stammlager or base camp.

Auschwitz: so we don't need guns to protect us from tyranny? Here's a reminder of what happens when the state has a monopoly on force

A downed airman, who either bailed out or survived the crash, typically was captured and ultimately found his way to a German Luftwaffe-run prison camp, or "stalag" (the common abbreviation of stammlager, literally translated to mean 'prison for "common stock").

War behind the wire: life and escape from Stalag 17B

Isabell Sprenger und Walter Kumpmann, "Grofi-Rosen - Stammlager, " in Benz and Distel, Der Ort des Terrors, vol.

Mennonites and the Holocaust: from collaboration to perpetuation

Depois, foi transferido para Hannover, Alemanha, permanecendo prisioneiro de guerra no campo de concentracao de Stammlager.

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Initially used to detain the hapless prisoners of Germany's early blitzkriegs, Stalag Luft 17-B (Stalag Luft, short for Stammlager Luft, "prison camp for airmen," and 17-B because it was the second prison camp in the German 17th military district) was opened to American POWs in 1943.

Stalag 17-B: the prison that inspired a movie and a TV comedy was a dingy, fleabag patch of hell for the Allied "kriegies" who got stuck there