POW Camps in India

POW Camps in India

Camps 1 to 8

Group I – Bangalore: Italian prisoners

Camp 3 - See 02.05.1942 - 32/45

Camps 9 to 16

Group II – Bhopal: Italian prisoners. Camp 16 was a hospital

Camps 17 to 20

Group III – Ramgarh: German Civil Internees and later Italian prisoners. Had a punishment camp for difficult Italian pows

Camps 21 to 24

Group IV - Clement Town (Dehradun): Separated in Wings 1: pro-Nazi, 2: anti-Nazi, 3: Italians. One of the camps was a Central Internment Camp

Camps 25 to 28

Group V – Yol: Italian prisoners

Camp 26

Camp 27

Camp 29

Group VI – Bikaner: Japanese prisoners. It was also a punishment camp for difficult Italian pows

Central Internment Camp (Dehradun/ Premnagar)

Mixed civilian internment and prisoner-of-war camp. Italian prisoners of war and German civilian internees housed in separate camps. Wing 1 and Wong 6 held German internees

Delhi

Japanese Camp: Delhi housed the Japanese prisoners captured in Burma

Deoli

DCivil Internment Camp: Deoli housed German civilian internees and Japanese civilian internees. It was also a punishment colony for Germans.

Link to an excellent website detailing the currency coupons issued by each camp

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