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Dig Studies U.K. POW Camp

rchaeologists have completed the first formal study of Lodge Moor prison camp near Sheffield, England, which dates from World War I and held more than 11,000 mostly German POWs at its World War II peak. Among its more infamous World War I internees was then submarine commander Karl Dönitz—future Nazi naval commander

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