stalags
Wartime prison camps
Stalags were German prisoner-of-war camps for enlisted personnel during World War II, short for Stammlager (base camp).
The term appears frequently in war memoirs and escape narratives: He spent three years in a stalag before the liberation.
Officers were held separately in oflags (Offizierslager).
The singular is stalag.
POW
Captured military personnel
barracks · captivity · escape · tunnels · guards · wire · compound · Luftwaffe · officers · liberation
cave
Underground hollow in rock
- limestoneCarbonate sedimentary rock
- calciteCrystalline calcium carbonate
- formationCreation or arrangement
cavern · drip · mineral · deposit · column · grotto · flowstone · karst · underground · dripstone
stalagsconcentration camps
Facilities for mass detention
extermination camps · death camps · Auschwitz · Dachau · Treblinka
stalagsfreedom
Absence of constraint
liberation · home front · repatriation · safe haven · neutral territory