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Welcome to the
MILAG
PoW
Web Site
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"Their
job was to steam on and on and on, which they did through thick and thin,
to their eternal credit and our sincerest admiration"
Anonymous British Naval Officer
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Despite
being officially classed as non-combatants and hence not liable to capture,
the German authorities created a special camp for Allied merchant seamen
and their civilian passengers. At first Milag (a Marine Internment Lager)
was merely a barbed wire compound (Stalag XB) inside the Sandbostel concentration
camp. Eventually, as a result of protests by the Protecting Powers, the
seamen were marched away to Westertimke where they had to build their own
huts and fence themselves in. |
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Some
4,500 merchant seamen from the British Empire, the USA and from all over
the world, spent up to 5 years in captivity in this camp. |
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site is still being developed, please re-visit or send an E-mail with any
comments or queries. If you would like to be notified when the site is up
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Made in
Wales
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