List of prisoner-of-war camps in Allied-occupied Germany

Following is the list of 19 prisoner-of-war camps set up in Allied-occupied Germany at the End of World War II in Europe to hold the Nazi German prisoners of war captured across Northwestern Europe by the Allies of World War II. Officially named Prisoner of War Temporary Enclosures (PWTE), they held between one and two million Nazi German military personnel from April until September 1945.

Prisoners held in the Allied camps were designated Disarmed Enemy Forces, not the Prisoners of War. This specific designation was introduced in March 1943 by SHAEF commander in chief Dwight D. Eisenhower in order to conform with the logistics of the Geneva Convention.International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in WW II, "German prisoners of war in Allied hands."Stanhope Bayne-Jones, "Enemy Prisoners of War."

Camps of the U.S. Army The Rheinwiesenlager camps are listed from north to south. Most of them were located near villages on the western side of the river Rhine.

TownFederal statePeriodNotesBüderichNorth Rhine-WestphaliaApril - June 1945RheinbergNorth Rhine-WestphaliaApril/June - September 1945WickrathbergNorth Rhine-WestphaliaApril/June - September 1945RemagenRhineland-PalatinateApril - June 1945SinzigRhineland-PalatinateApril/June - September 1945women's sectionSiershahnRhineland-PalatinateApril/June - September 1945AndernachRhineland-PalatinateApril/June - September 1945DiezRhineland-PalatinateApril/June - September 1945UrmitzRhineland-PalatinateApril/June - September 1945KoblenzRhineland-PalatinateApril/June - September 1945HeidesheimRhineland-PalatinateApril/June - September 1945Winzenheim / BretzenheimRhineland-PalatinateApril/June - September 1945camp for Waffen SS, later French transit camp - 1948HechtsheimRhineland-PalatinateApril/June - September 1945BiebelsheimRhineland-PalatinateApril/June - September 1945Bad KreuznachRhineland-PalatinateApril/June - September 1945DietersheimRhineland-PalatinateApril/June - September 1945LudwigshafenRhineland-PalatinateApril/June - September 1945Böhl-IggelheimRhineland-PalatinateApril - June 1945April/June - September 1945HeilbronnBaden-WürttembergApril/June - September 1945

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