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WWII German Issued Prisoner of War Identity Tags: STALAG VIII C. Stalag VIII-C was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp, near Sagan, Lower Silesia (now Żagań, Poland). It was adjacent to the famous Stalag Luft III, and was built at the beginning of World War II, occupying 48 ha (120 acres). It housed Allied POWs of various nationalities, incl. Polish, French, Belgian, British, Canadian, Greek, Yugoslav, Soviet, Australian, New Zealand, South African, Italian, Senegalese, Algerian, Moroccan and Slovak. On 8 February 1945, most of the prisoners were marched westward ahead of the Soviet offensive, leaving only 200 prisoners in the camp hospital. The German camp command destroyed all documentation and evidence of the crimes committed.
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