Oberlangen
Encyclopedia
Oberlangen is a municipality in district (Landkreis) Emsland
, Lower Saxony
(Niedersachsen), north-western Germany. Population 916 in 2005.
This was the location of the Prisoner-of-war camp
Stalag VI-C
. There is a cemetery with mass graves of Soviet prisoners, and individual graves of other prisoners.
Emsland
Landkreis Emsland is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany named after the river Ems. It is bounded by the districts of Leer, Cloppenburg and Osnabrück, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , the district of Bentheim and the Netherlands .- History :For a long time the region of the Emsland was...
, Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...
(Niedersachsen), north-western Germany. Population 916 in 2005.
This was the location of the Prisoner-of-war camp
Prisoner-of-war camp
A prisoner-of-war camp is a site for the containment of combatants captured by their enemy in time of war, and is similar to an internment camp which is used for civilian populations. A prisoner of war is generally a soldier, sailor, or airman who is imprisoned by an enemy power during or...
Stalag VI-C
Stalag VI-C
Stalag VI-C - Oberlangen was a World War II German POW camp located 6 km west of the village Oberlangen in Emsland in north-western Germany. It was originally built with five others in the same marshland area as a prison camp for Germans...
. There is a cemetery with mass graves of Soviet prisoners, and individual graves of other prisoners.
External links
- About Stalag VI-C in German