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 Translation for 'POW camp' from English to Danish
NOUN   a POW camp | POW camps
SYNO internment camp | POW camp | prison camp | ...
prisoner of war camp <POW camp>krigsfangelejr {fk}
prisoner of war <POW>krigsfange {fk}
hist.
concentration camp
koncentrationslejr {fk}
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Usage Examples English
  • While in a POW camp, he formulated what he later called "Rudeltaktik" ("pack tactic", commonly called "wolfpack").
  • In 1997, the Geoje POW Camp in South Korea was turned into a memorial.
  • In the Elmore Leonard novella “Comfort to the Enemy,” the parties stay in Okmulgee while visiting the POW camp.
  • This was the only World War II POW camp located in New Hampshire.
  • Later in the war it served as a prisoner of war—POW camp, holding several thousand of Rommel's German Afrika Korps soldiers.

  • Scottsdale was the site of a German POW camp at the intersection of Scottsdale and Thomas Roads in what today is Papago Park.
  • During World War II, a small POW camp was operated outside of Oneonta.
  • Crockett State School took over the former POW camp in 1946, and used it as a training school for delinquent black girls.
  • In his POW camp he was involved with a prisoner theater group and wrote a film script.
  • The Germans built a huge secret dynamite factory ("DAG Fabrik Bromberg") hidden in a forest in which they used the slave labor of several hundred forced laborers, including Allied prisoners of war from the Stalag XX-A POW camp in Toruń.

  • It was used as a PoW camp and was also host to a number of the United States Army 82nd Airborne Division's 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment.
  • He was taken back to Lorient and was eventually transferred to the POW camp at Milag Nord near Bremen.
  • In 1952 Tomoya Kawakita, a Japanese-American dual citizen was convicted of treason and sentenced to death for having worked as an interpreter at a Japanese POW camp and having mistreated American prisoners.
  • Miles goes undercover and allows himself to be captured by the Cetagandans, who have invaded and occupied the planet Marilac, in order to infiltrate a maximum-security POW camp on Dagoola IV.
  • During World War II, Camp Clinton was established as a German POW camp south of town; it housed about 3,000 German soldiers.

  • The Sulmona camp also served as a POW camp in World War I; much of the facility is still intact and attracts tourists interested in military history.
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