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*Fort William, [[Calcutta]], army camp, closed early 1940, males were sent to [[Ahmadnagar|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.
There was an internment camp at Mhow for Germans residing in India.<ref>
[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=SoG0yYBlvf8C&lpg=PA25&pg=PA25#v=onepage&q=Mhow%20internment&f=false Page 25] ''A Soldier's Life in War and Peace'' by Maj.Gen A. S. Naravane Google Books ISBN 81-7648-437-7</ref>
Catalogue reference [[BACSA]] Archive at the [[British Library]] India: Italian POW Camps Mss Eur F370/853
