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**[http://gaebler.info/india/escape.htm#1 Escape by Rolf Magener from internment at Dehra Dun]  
**[http://gaebler.info/india/escape.htm#1 Escape by Rolf Magener from internment at Dehra Dun]  
**[http://gaebler.info/india/selzer.htm ''World War II in British India''] by Hermann M. Selzer, M. D. Born a Polish Jew, he studied medicine in Germany and Italy and worked with his wife, as  doctors in Lahore from the late 1930s. In December 1940, the family was arrested and taken as enemy aliens to first Purandhar and then Satara internment camps in Southern India until August 1946, when they were released and returned to Lahore.  
**[http://gaebler.info/india/selzer.htm ''World War II in British India''] by Hermann M. Selzer, M. D. Born a Polish Jew, he studied medicine in Germany and Italy and worked with his wife, as  doctors in Lahore from the late 1930s. In December 1940, the family was arrested and taken as enemy aliens to first Purandhar and then Satara internment camps in Southern India until August 1946, when they were released and returned to Lahore.  
***[http://gaebler.info/india/selzer.htm#purandhar Internment and Parole Camp Purandhar]  
***[http://gaebler.info/india/selzer.htm#purandhar Internment and Parole Camp Purandhar]. The author [http://gaebler.info/india/selzer.htm#tacuisses details] how the Camp Commandant misappropriated money meant for the medical care of the prisoners and also money from their food allowance, which is described in this [http://gaebler.info/india/selzer.htm#life link] 
***[http://gaebler.info/india/selzer.htm#satara Internment and Parole Camp Satara]
***[http://gaebler.info/india/selzer.htm#satara Internment and Parole Camp Satara]



Revision as of 02:16, 3 May 2012

Prisoner of War and Internment Camps in India

Boer War

In India, there were Boer prisoners of war camps at

(Information mainly from the Anglo Boer War Museum website)

External links

First World War

Historical books online

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Second World War

The Prisoners-of-war were interned in India in 29 camps forming 6 Groups of camps. In addition, there were two Civil Internment Camps at Dehradun and Deoli and one camp in Delhi for the Japanese prisoners captured in Burma.

  • Group I – Bangalore: Camps 1 to 8 - Italian prisoners.
  • Group II – Bhopal: Camps 9 to 16 – Italian prisoners. Camp 16 was a hospital. Bhopal Bairagarh (Wikipedia)
  • Group III – Ramgarh: Camps 17 to 20 – German Civil Internees and later Italian prisoners. Had a punishment camp for difficult Italian POWs Ramgarh was near Hazaribagh. It was used as a POW camp up to May 1942 when the POWs were moved out and the United States Chinese Training Command was established there.
  • Group IV - Clement Town (Dehra Dun): Camps 21 to 24 – Separated in Wings 1: pro-Nazi, 2: anti-Nazi, 3: Italians. One of the camps was a *Central Internment Camp.
  • Group V – YOL: Camps 25 to 28 – Italian prisoners. Yol was situated near Dharamsala (Wikipedia)
  • Group VI – Bikaner: Camp 29 – Japanese prisoners. It was also a punishment camps for difficult Italian POWs.Bikaner (Wikipedia)
  • Central Internment Camp (Dehra Dun / Premnagar): This was mixed civilian internment and prisoner-of-war camp. Italian prisoners of war and German civilian internees housed in separate camps. Wing 1 and Wing 6 held German internees.
  • Delhi – Japanese Camp: Delhi housed the Japanese prisoners captured in Burma.
  • Deoli – Civil Internment Camp: Deoli housed German civilian internees and Japanese civilian internees. It was also a punishment colony for Germans. Deoli (Wikipedia)

The above information is mainly taken from the website Indian Banknote:India: Prisoner-of-War Coupons

This Wikipedia article lists the following additional camps

  • Deolali from February 1941, later also transferred to Dehra Dun 11 August 1941: Germans.
  • Yercaud for females from Madras Presidency. Summer 1941, closed late 1942.
  • Fort William, Calcutta, army camp, closed early 1940, males were sent to Ahmednagar, females to Katapahar parole camp.
  • Smaller Parole Camps at Naini Tal, Kodaikanal and Katapahar (near Darjeeling), were all closed by late 1942. Inmates transferred to (family reunions) to the camps near Poona: Satara from May 1940, Purandhar (lower Fort), initially for Jewish refugees, later also other Germans, many missionaries with families.

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German prisoners of war

Italian prisoners of war