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Blackmail material against others (ex. Vichy France). Conditions of soldiers from countries which no longer posed a significant threat to Germany (ex. Poland) were generally worse than those of others; British and American POWs received generally the best treatment.[3]Conditions in the camp have been described as bad, but (for POWs of Western Allies) improved as the war went on and Germans had to consider that they held significant amount of German POWs and could enact retribution.[4]: 263–264 [3]Administration Barrack III in Oflag XD, drawn by Belgian officer POW Léon Gossens, 1944Dulag or Durchgangslager (transit camp) – These camps served as a collection point for POWs prior to reassignment. These camps were intelligence collection centers.Dulag Luft or Durchgangslager der Luftwaffe (transit camp of the Luftwaffe) – These were transit camps for Air Force/Air Corps POWs. The main Dulag Luft camp at Frankfurt was the principal collecting point for intelligence derived from Allied POW interrogationHeilag or Heimkehrerlager (repatriation camps) - Camps for the return of prisoners. Quite often these men had suffered disabling injuries.Ilag/Jlag or Internierungslager ("Internment camp") – These were civilian internment camps.Marlag or Marine-Lager ("Marine camp") – These were Navy/Marine personnel POW camps.Milag or Marine-Internierten-Lager ("Marine internment camp") – These were merchant seamen internment camps.Oflag or Offizier-Lager ("Officer camp") – These were POW camps for officers.Stalag or Stammlager ("Base camp") – These were enlisted personnel POW camps.Stalag Luft or Luftwaffe-Stammlager ("Luftwaffe base camp") – These were POW camps administered by the German Air Force for Allied aircrews (including officers, e.g. Stalag Luft I).At the start of World War II, the German Army was divided into 17 military districts (Wehrkreise), which were each assigned Roman numerals. The camps were numbered according to the military district. A letter behind the Roman number marked individual Stalags in a military district.e.g.Stalag II-D was the fourth Stalag in Military District II (Wehrkreis II).Sub-camps had a suffix "/Z" (for Zweiglager - sub-camp). The main camp had a suffix of "/H" (for Hauptlager - main camp).e.g.Oflag VII-C/H meant this is the main camp.Oflag VII-C/Z meant this is a sub-camp of a main camp.Some of these sub-camps were
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