World War Two

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• The Wartime Memories Project

• Age Concern Time capsule - Military Service

• Conscript Heroes

• Bletchley Park Archives

• Lesser Known Facts about WW2

• Memories of the 384th Bombardment Group (USA)

• New Zealand troops in North Africa

• North African Campaign

• Nuremberg Trials Project

• Polish Links for WW2

• Second World War in Northern Ireland

• The U-Boat War

• WW2 Crew Lists

The Home Front

• The Midnight Watch - The Home Front

• 'Home Sweet Home Front'

• Civilian Life in WW2

• Recollections of WW2

• Chesham in the Second World War

• The People's War

Evacuation

Evacuation and Evacuees

The Home Guard

• The Story of the Home Guard

• The Home Guard

• Home Guard Pocket Manual

Land Girls

• Reminiscences of Land Army Girls

• Times past - Land Army Girls

Prisoners of War and Detainees

The International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva keeps lists of all known POWs and internees of all nationalities for the Second World War. Enquiries concerning these lists should be directed to:

Archives Division and Research Service
International Committee of the Red Cross
19 Avenue de la Paix,
Geneva CH-1202,
Switzerland

email: archives.gva@icrc.org

• POW - The German Prisoners of World War 2

• WW2 Prisoners of War - Stalag Luft I

• COFEPOW - Children & Families of Far East Prisoners of War

• Behind the Wire. POW 1914-1918

• The Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals

• Cowra prisoner of war campsite

• COFEPOW ~ The Children (& Families) of the Far East Prisoners of War

• Prisoners of War 109TH Medical Battalion (1942 - 1945) WW2 & Beyond

• The Holocaust History Project

Book: Prisoners of War, British Army, 1939 - 1945

That lists alphabetically over 107,000 British Army POWs of all ranks held in Germany or in German occupied territories in World War Two. It gives each POW's camp, POW number, surname, initials, rank, army number and regiment/corps.

It was re-published in 1990, by J B Hayward and Sons of Polstead, Suffolk (cost £38) ISBN 0-903754-61-

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