LC control no. | n 97037272 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Corporate name heading | Stalag Luft III |
Variant(s) | Stalag Luft 3 Stalag Luft Drei Stammlager Luft III |
Beginning date | 1943 |
Found in | LC database, Apr. 9, 1997 (hdg.: Stalag Luft 3 (Żagań, Poland : Concentration camp); usage: Stalag Luft III) Luck of the draw, 2023: CIP galley (Stalag Luft III was located about half a mile south of Sagan, Germany; Stammlager Luft III; situated on the Bóbr River near the old German-Polish border; The camp opened in the spring of 1943 to accommodate the transfer of several hundred RAF officers and NCOs from Barth and other Luftwaffe prison camps in Germany; in 1943, Stalag Luft III was designated an Allied flying officers prison camp and expanded to accommodate additional prisoners) |
Not found in | Das nationalsozialistische Lagersystem, 1990; Verzeichnis der Haftstätten unter den Reichsführer-SS, 1979 |
Invalid LCCN | sh 85127274 |