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Hemer is a town in the Märkischer Kreis district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Haus Hemer
Klusenstein Castle
Old Amtshaus
POW memorial in Hemer
During World War II, Soviet prisoners of war held by Nazi Germany and primarily in the custody of the German Army were starved and subjected to deadly conditions. Of nearly six million who were captur
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…permanently overpopulated. At first the inmates were mostly from Poland and France, but after the beginning of the war with the Soviet Union in 1941 Soviet POWs quickly became the majority. It is estimated that during the six years of the war more than 200,000 inmates were held in the camp. Those who were capable…
Distribution of food in a POW camp near Vinnytsia, Ukraine, in July 1941
Red Army soldiers captured between Lutsk and Volodymyr-Volynskyi, June 1941
Soviet prisoners of war by year of capture
An improvised camp for Soviet prisoners of war, August 1942