Rheinwiesenlager
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The Rheinwiesenlager were a group of 19 camps built in the Allied-occupied part of Germany by the U.S. Army to hold captured German soldiers at the close of the Second World War. Officially named Pris
A U.S. soldier at Camp Remagen guarding thousands of German soldiers captured in the Ruhr area on 25 April 1945
The exposed conditions within Sinzig POW camp, 16 May 1945.
Andersonville Prison
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Andersonville Prison, located near Andersonville, Georgia, was a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the final fourteen months of the American Civil War. Most of the site lies in southwestern Maco
Rheinwiesenlager
…and gradually succeeded in getting some improvements made." According to a report by the Army Medical Department, "Some of the enclosures resembled Andersonville Prison in 1864". Official United States statistics conclude there were just over 3,000 deaths in the Rheinwiesenlager. A 1972 West German committee led by…
Reconstruction of a section of the stockade wall
A depiction of Andersonville Prison by John L. Ransom, former prisoner
A drawing of Andersonville Prison by Thomas O'Dea, former prisoner
Providence Spring, the only source of clean drinking water for the prisoners (fountain erected in 1901)