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Holzminden internment camp was a large World War I detention camp (Internierungslager) located to the north-east of Holzminden, Lower Saxony, Germany, which existed from 1914 to 1918. It held civilian internees from allied nations. It was the largest internment camp in Germany, and in October 1918 held 4,240 civilians.[1]
It is not to be confused with Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp, a much smaller camp for British and British Empire officers, which occupied a former cavalry barracks nearer the centre of the town, and which existed from September 1917 to December 1918.
- ^ Jahr, Christoph; Thiel, Jens (2019). "Adding colour to the silhouettes: the internment and treatment of foreign civilians in Germany during the First World War". In Manz, Stefan; Panayi, Panikos; Stibbe, Matthew (eds.). Internment during the First World War: a mass global phenomenon. Abingdon: Routledge. pp. 40–60 (43). ISBN 978-0-415-78744-4.