Stalag
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- ''Arbeitskommandos''
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In Germany, the term '''' (; ) designated a prisoner-of-war camp. is a contraction of , itself short for , literally "main camp for enlisted prisoners of war" (captured officers were kept in an ). Therefore, literally means "main camp".
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