In Israel of the 1950s–1960s, "stalag" was a generic term for pornographic material with a theme of sadistic sexual activity between female SS officers and prisoners of war.

Roughly 94,000 Americans were held as prisoners of war in the European Theater and 7,717 of them spent time in Stalag Luft I on the Baltic sea in the German city of Barth, 105 miles northwest of …

Oct 13, 2025 · In the summer of 1940, the southern end of the camp was prepared for prisoners of war from the enlisted ranks. The camp was called Stammlager XIII C, or Stalag XIII C for short, and …

Nov 23, 2021 · Although the German Luftwaffe designed the Stalag Luft III camp to be escape-proof, the audacious, real-life prison break immortalized in the 1963 movie The Great Escape proved otherwise.

The term "Stalag" refers to a general prisoner-of-war camp, while "Luft" denotes that the camp was intended for air force personnel. These camps were part of a larger system of POW camps in …

In 1939, the Nazis established the Mannschafts-Stammlager (Stalag) IX B camp in Germany. Learn more about the camp’s history, prisoners, and liberation.

After 25 September 1944, the administration of Stalag Luft I remained in the hands of officers of the Luftwaffe, although Heinrich Himmler and the SS took over the supreme command for all POWs from …

Stalag Luft III was one of nine prisoner-of-war camps (Kriegsgefangenenlagers in German) run by the Luftwaffe to house downed allied airmen, who nicknamed themselves 'Kriegies'.

(“Stalag” is the abbreviation for Stamlager, or prisoner camp and “Luft” is an abbreviation of Luftwaffe, the name of the German air force.) Throughout 1943 and 1944, increasing numbers of American air …

Jun 7, 2023 · In a place where military history goes back thousands of years, Stalag Luft 3 and Stalag VIII C need few introductions. They were prisoner of war (POW) camps run by the Germans in …