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	Marlag und Milag Nord - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marlag und Milag Nord was a Prisoner-of-war camp in Military District X, located near Westertimke, Germany.
		Milag (for Marine Internierten Lager), was first created as one of two compounds inside Sandbostel Concentration camp, south of Bremervorde, Germany, for the purpose of housing captured Merchant seamen.
		Between the Autumn of 1941 and the Spring of 1942 the occupants of these compounds were transferred to Marlag und Milag Nord, two separate but adjacent camps at Westertimke, 20 kilometres away.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marlag_und_Milag_Nord (192 words)

	Marlag und Milag Nord -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Marlag und Milag Nord was a (Click link for more info and facts about Prisoner-of-war camp) Prisoner-of-war camp in Military District X, located near Westertimke, Germany.
		Milag (for Marine Internierten Lager), was first created as one of two compounds inside Sandbostel (A penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions)) Concentration camp, south of Bremervorde, Germany, for the purpose of housing captured Merchant seamen.
		An adjoining compound, Marlag (for Marine Lager) was for captured (Click link for more info and facts about Royal Navy) Royal Navy personnel.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Ma/Marlag_und_Milag_Nord.htm (275 words)

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		MILAG - The Marine Internierten Lager, was first created as one of two compounds inside Sandbostel Concentration camp, south of Bremervorde, Germany, for the purpose of housing captured Merchant seamen.
		An adjoining compound, MARLAG - the Marine Lager, being for captured Royal Navy personnel.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Marlag-und-Milag-Nord (206 words)

	Kvarstad Ships & Men - Warsailors.com
		A similar tunnel was dug further up in the camp, without success, and yet another tunnel was dug at Marlag, this one with great success, resulting in the escape of 53 prisoners, but whether any of them were able to get out of the country is unclear.
		As mentioned they had already been questioned by representatives from the German Navy at Milag, and when similar questions were asked this time, they - wisely or not - answered them in the same manner as before, namely openheartedly, though this time it was Gestapo who were to judge their answers.
		On June 11-1943 about 110 men arrived Sonnenburg (a former convent located 14 kilometers northeast of Küstrin, near Oder), followed by the remaining men at the end of July, except for the 11 who had received a 1 year jail sentence; they were transferred to the Tegel jail in Berlin.
	www.warsailors.com /freefleet/kvarstad3.html (4151 words)

	Merchant Mariners at Milag Nord Prisoner of War Camp in Germany World War II
		The Marlag Lager for the Navy POW and the Milag Lager for Merchant Marine POW each had 2 compounds designated as "O" and "M" for officers and enlisted men respectively.
		There were a few cases of tuberculosis in the hospital, which was in the Milag section of the camp and was operated by the British, and also a very few cases of dysentery.
		POW from Marlag and Milag never worked outside of the camp, but when they were asked to do so they refused.
	www.usmm.org /milag.html (4215 words)

	Tommy's Log
		Note: The 60th anniversary of the liberation of Milag was April 28, 2005.
		Milag -from a pencil sketch in the logbook
		Tommy was to spend the rest of the war in German POW camps, mainly at Marlag und Milag Nord, a camp that held Naval (Marlag) and Merchant (Milag) seamen.
	www.tommyslog.ca (395 words)

	Und Milag Nord de Marlag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		MILAG - la cerveza dorada marina de Internierten, primero fue creada como una de dos pastas dentro del campo de concentración de Sandbostel, sur de Bremervorde, Alemania, con el fin la unidad capturara a marineros mercantil.
		Una pasta colindante, MARLAG - la cerveza dorada marina, estando para el personal real capturado de la marina.
		Entre el otoño de 1941 y el resorte de 1942 transfirieron a los inquilinos de estas pastas al und Milag Nord, dos separados pero campos adyacentes en Westertimke, 20 kilómetros de Marlag lejos.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/un/Und%20Milag%20Nord%20de%20Marlag.htm (206 words)

	POW page
		The Marlag Lager for the Navy PW and the Milag Lager for Merchant Marine PW each had compounds designated as Marlag "O" and Marlag "M" and Milag "O" and Milag "M" for officers and enlisted men respectively.
		When the 1900 RAF officers arrived, PW from Marlag "M" were transferred to the Ilag compound and the British fliers were accommodated in Marlag "M".
		PW from Marlag and Milag never worked outside of the camp, but when they were asked to do so they refused.
	webhome.idirect.com /~kettles/uncle/powtest.htm (2215 words)

	Irish MN POWs
		In March 1942, 32 seamen of Irish nationality were selected and transported to the Bremen labour office and later moved to the SS camp classified as an Arbeitserziehungslager AEL at Farge in Bremen.
		The merchant navy camp at Marlag Milag Nord was an external camp linked to the main concentration camp at Sandbostel.
		In Milag Nord Internienten Lager (Marine Internment Camp) merchant navy officers and petty officers were not required to work.This did not apply to the ordinary Seaman.
	www.irishseamensrelativesassociation.org /MN%20POW.htm (2217 words)

	Encyclopedia: Borne Sulinowo
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		Soon afterwards the advancing Red Army forced the Germans to evacuate the camp.
		After a forced march of 700 kilometres the prisoners were interned in Stalag X-B and Marlag und Milag Nord in Sandbostel.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Borne-Sulinowo (2339 words)

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		April 28, 2005 marked the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Marlag und Milag Nord by British troops.
		Gabe Thomas and Uwe Heitmann were instrumental in having plaques placed to mark the anniversary.
		George was the radio officer on the AD Huff which was in the same convoy as Tommy's ship the Kantara.
	www.murrayarmstrong.com /tm/milag60.htm (53 words)

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		Our arrival there was not encouraging for a body of men who were still buoyed up by the success of their enterprise and was a further reminder of the new reality of their situation.
		His had been an outstanding naval achievement and the honour of his award was felt to reflect on those who had been in Campbeltown with him and those who had accompanied her in the smaller craft.
		The compounds were kept locked at the time as at Marlag und Milag.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /grant.randall/Parents/Book1c.htm (8000 words)

	Reg Urwin
		Reg was a prisoner at Milag und Marlag Nord from early 1943.
		Once again, we were loaded on to a truck with a lot of German Naval Personnel, some of which turned out to be guards at Marlag und Milag Nord, the camp to which we were headed.
		There was another camp a few miles away called Sandbostel which had quite a reputation for discipline and if any one over played their hand, they were packed off for a spell of “RandR” as the Germans laughingly called it.
	www.murrayarmstrong.com /tm/rurwin.htm (7548 words)

	C. Miller Fisher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The survivors, about half the crew, were transferred to a German prison ship that took them to Bordeaux.
		Fisher then found himself in Marlag-und-Milag Nord — bleak, wind-blown country in northwestern Germany.
		While in Montreal C. Miller Fisher made a discovery regarding the carotid artery as a cause of strokes.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /heirloom_series/volume5/210-211.htm (779 words)

	HMS Voltaire Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		During the chaos that ensued around 25% of the crew were killed whilst the remainder were later picked up by the `Thor` and taken to the `Marlag and Milag Nord Stalag XB` prisoner of war camp in Germany.This was the Northern camp of the Navy and the Merchant Navy.
		Below is a plan of the Milag Nord section of the camp where the mariners would have been held captive for up to around 5 years.
		A book has been written by one of the survivors of the sinking of the Voltaire who was also a prisoner of war in the camp mentioned.His name is Roger Vilven Coward and the book is called `Sailors In Cages` of which I have obtained a copy.
	www.myfamilyhistoryarchive.co.uk /hms_voltaire_page.htm (229 words)

	Your Place And Mine - Antrim - WWII Tommy Shields
		Tommy becomes a new P.O.W. Tommy, now properly documented as a naval prisoner, was moved to a naval POW camp near Hamburg called Marlag Milag Nord which he described as 'almost like Butlins' where there were music groups, theatre groups, libraries and courses in virtually anything you wished to learn.
		As a punishment he was transferred to a small satellite camp of Marlag Milag Nord in the Harz mountains.
		Tommy, (at the wheel of a truck) with German guards outside POW camp at Marlag Milag Nord.
	www.bbc.co.uk /northernireland/yourplaceandmine/antrim/A1167644.shtml (2609 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Lieutenant Jack Balfrey-Bowker
		Flying in low over the sea, Sarra dipped a wing in the water and crashed off the harbour.
		After the Italian armistice in September 1943, they were moved by the German army to Marlag und Milag Nord, near Bremerhaven.
		Early in his imprisonment, Bowker was accused of having stolen another inmate's cap.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/09/15/db1501.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/09/15/ixportal.html (922 words)

	SS British Strength, William, Marlad & Milag Nord
		At the top of the hanky the artist/owner has written Marlag und Milag Nord, Germany.
		The Altmark was a German Prison Ship and Marlag and Milag Nord were POW camps in Germany.
		There are two flags shown at the top of the hanky, in one is written the name William and in the other Ruth, so presumably William painted the hanky while in the POW camp, and Ruth was his wife or sweetheart.
	www.wartimememories.co.uk /mb/board1/366.shtml (256 words)

	Marlag Nord & Milag Nord Westertimke
		Das Marlag und das Ilag entstanden, Vorläufer der westertimker Lager.
		Nördlich zwischen Marlag und Milag wurde ein kleines isoliertes Gefangenenlager errichtet, das Dulag (Durchgangslager).
		Aus dem Milag sind mehrere Fluchttunnel nach außerhalb gegraben worden.
	www.relikte.com /westertimke (806 words)

	4 August 1942
		At 1615, the Empire Arnold, dispersed from Convoy E-6, was torpedoed and sunk by U-155 about 500 miles NE of Trinidad.
		the U-boat, landed at Lorient on 15 September and taken to the POW camp Milag Nord.
		the POW camps Marlag und Milag Nord, but the master eventually came back to Norway.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/1942/08/04.htm (1115 words)

	Norwegian Merchant Fleet - Ship Forum
		Atlantis in 1940/1, however after the Atlantis was sunk by the Devonshire the book Milag states that he was made commander of the Milag naval prisoner of war camp!
		and then on 17 April 1945 took responsibility for Marlag as well, surely the camp commander title was a step down, I would have thought that he would have been given another ship to command as I see he became an Admiral after the war.
		The photographs used in most cases are of Bernhard Rogge, and the tales by the ex P.O.Ws seem to have added to the confusion.
	www.warsailors.com /phorum/read.php?f=1&i=8562&t=6903 (384 words)

	Untitled Document
		(MARine LAGer) held Royal Navy Prisoners while Milag (Marine Internee LAGer) was for merchant seamen, passengers and some other interned civilians.
		The camps were located close to one another but had little to do with one another apart from sharing the camp hospital (in Milag) a common cemetry and a separate shower block (from which the Albert R.N. escape took place)
		During WW II some 4,500 seamen and civilian passengers endured illegal captivity in this camp.
	www.gabethomas.clara.net /Milag_home.htm (116 words)

	R/O W. Skett (pow)
		In June 1940, Walter was on board the tanker MV British Petrol bound for Trinidad, when she was stopped and sunk by the German raider Widder.
		An account of his death (murder) was given by two eye witnesses and included in Gabe Thomas's book, Milag: Captives of the Kriegsmarine.
		The account of his death is given in the POW Logbook of T. (Tom) McNamee along with a photograph of his grave.
	www.gordonmumford.com /pow-5.htm (345 words)

	Welcome to the Vancouver Courier - On Line - News
		He survived, but was captured and sent to a prisoner of war camp in Italy.
		Recaptured after escaping, Smith was transported to another camp called Marlag und Milag Nord in northwest Germany.
		One day, one of his roommates in Hut No. 10 suggested they could do with a clock, and Smith-who would later become a civil engineer-rashly offered to build one.
	www.vancourier.com /issues01/07201/news/072101nn6.html (644 words)

	III: Prisoners of War in Germany \| NZETC
		As might have been expected after the move from Warburg, mail was slow in arriving, books and recreational facilities were rather short, and it took some time before adequate areas were agreed upon to enable outdoor games to be played.
		Also in the Milag section were some twenty New Zealanders belonging to the Merchant Navy.
		A small compound was set aside for naval officers and a larger one for petty officers and leading seamen, who as non-commissioned officers were exempt from work.
	www.nzetc.org /etexts/WH2Pris/_N87191.html (9492 words)

	Col Ortiz
		From that time, until 29 September, when he reached his final destination, the naval POW camp Marlag/Milag Nord located in the small German village of Westertimke outside Bremen, Ortiz looked for every opportunity to escape, but none presented itself.
		I made a reconnaissance of Marlag O....There seemed to be only a token guard and prisoners of war appeared to have assumed virtual control of the compounds.
		On the tenth day, the four men decided it might be better to live in their old huts than to starve to death outside.
	www.chezjacq.com /maj_ortiz.htm (4648 words)

	Printer Friendly Format - This Is Local London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		His navigation was so good, when theGermans told the prisoners they would reach Bordeaux in three days, Philiptold his companions they would arrive next day, and he was right!
		What he could not predict, however, was spending the next four-and-a-halfyears in a prisoner-of-war camp, Marlag und Milag Nord.
		No slouch, he madehimself a comb, knife, fork and spoon, became a lecturer on gyro compassesand in English, and studied accountancy and shorthand.
	www.thisislocallondon.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=78446 (404 words)

	Welcome to the Imperial War Museum : Family History - Documents
		Some unique items, such as listings for internment camps are held by the Department of Documents and these can be of real value to the family historian. An outstanding example of this is the Changi Civilian Internment Camp register, which was kept until 31 December 1942.
		A similar valuable listing is a 230 page register for Marlag and Milag Nord (a prison camp for merchant seamen at Westertimke in Germany) covering the period between July 1942 and January 1945.
		This is part of a collection formed by the individual who was imprisoned there, and so shows the range of information that can be found in the various collections.
	www.iwm.org.uk /server/show/ConWebDoc.1299 (166 words)

	A.D. HUFF - Veterans Affairs Canada
		Only then were the Allies able to determine what had actually happened to the A.D. Huff.
		The rest spent 14 months in Stalag XB and then were moved to the naval and merchant marine camp Marlag und Milag Nord near Bremerhaven for the rest of the war.
		They were finally released on 27 April, 1945 by the British 2nd Army's Highlanders.
	www.vac-acc.gc.ca /youth/sub.cfm?source=history/secondwar/diary/gshaker/adhuff (1407 words)

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