Stalag Luft III
Stalag Luft III was a Luftwaffe-run prisoner-of-war camp during the Second World War, which held captured Western Allied air force personnel. The camp was established in March 1942 near the town of Sagan, Lower Silesia, in what was then Nazi Germany, 160 km south-east of Berlin.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: World War II Luftwaffe-run prisoner of war camp
- Also known as: “Camp Sagan”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Żagań railway station and Museum of Prisoner of War Camps in Żagań.
Żagań railway station
Railway station
Żagań railway station is situated 1 km northeast of Stalag Luft III.
Museum of Prisoner of War Camps in Żagań
Museum
Museum of Prisoner of War Camps in Żagań is situated 1 km west of Stalag Luft III.
Castle in Żagań
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Castle in Żagań is situated 2 km northeast of Stalag Luft III.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bożnów and Żaganiec.
Bożnów
Village
Bożnów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Żagań, within Żagań County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland. Bożnów is situated 4 km east of Stalag Luft III.
Żaganiec
Village
Żaganiec is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Iłowa, within Żagań County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland. It lies approximately 8 km north-east of Iłowa, 8 km south-west of Żagań, and 45 km south-west of Zielona Góra. Żaganiec is situated 4½ km southwest of Stalag Luft III.
Marysin
Village
Marysin is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Żagań, within Żagań County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland. Marysin is situated 5 km northeast of Stalag Luft III.
Stalag Luft III
- Categories: prisoner-of-war camp, Stalag, and tourism
- Location: Żagań, Żagań County, Lubuskie, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
51.59839° or 51° 35′ 54″ northLongitude
15.30683° or 15° 18′ 25″ eastOpen location code
9F3QH8X4+9POpenStreetMap ID
node 3889755758OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q700634
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Spanish—“Stalag Luft III” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Stalag Luft III”
- Arabic: “شتالاج لوفت 3”
- Catalan: “Stalag Luft III”
- Chinese: “拉夫特3號俘虜收容所”
- Czech: “Stalag Luft III”
- Danish: “Stalag Luft III”
- Dutch: “Stalag Luft III”
- French: “Stalag Luft III”
- German: “Stalag Luft III”
- German: “Stalag Sagan”
- Hebrew: “סטלאג לופט III”
- Italian: “Stalag Luft III”
- Japanese: “スタラグ・ルフト III”
- Latvian: “Stalag Luft III”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Stalag Luft III”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Stalag Luft III”
- Norwegian: “Stalag Luft III”
- Polish: “Stalag Luft 3”
- Polish: “Stalag Luft III”
- Portuguese: “Stalag 3”
- Portuguese: “Stalag Luft III”
- Russian: “Шталаг Люфт III”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Stalag Luft III”
- Spanish: “Stalag Luft III”
- “Stalag Luft III”
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Highlights include Barracks ruins and Barracks ruins.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Stalag Luft III”. Photo: Wikigraphists, CC BY-SA 3.0.