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There was a POW camp on the outsirts of Wells on the Wookey Hole Road, which mainly housed German prisoners. The site, known as Penleigh Works, was taken over by EMI Electronics after the war and is now occupied by the Land and Joint Systems division of the defence contractor Thales.
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There was no stalag 17 in Germany. The Stalags in Germany were for the enlisted military not the officers....they were in Oslags...oh now I can't remember how to spell that word. Hundreds of POW's in Germany did try to escape. Some were successful and some were captured and returned to the POW camps. Others were killed while trying to escape. There were POW's that did dig their way out. Remember Hogan's Heroes is a comedy and not representative of the real POW camps. Some POW's were assisted by the Underground Resistance and made it back to England.
Kazuo Sakamaki of the Japanese Navy was the first POW taken by the US. WW2 is considered to have begun when Germany and Russia attacked Poland on 1 Sept 1939. So, the Polish soldiers were the first POWs.
My Uncle was a POW for 23 months. He told me in approximately 1981 that he was captured behind enemy lines shortly before the battle. Even though he was enlisted he was sent to OFLAG 64 in Poland. He spent approximately 23 months there before they were marched to Germany during the winter.
Heppenheim was not a designed as a POW camp, it was a sub-camp of Dachau Concentration Camp. See the link.
My father was captured in 1943 by the Germans and shipped to northern Greece to a POW camp. He was captured near the town of Nevesinje. The POW camp was near Salonkia, Greece.
he is held captive at brlin in nazi germany
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