Drzewice

Drzewice
Drzewice
Neighbourhood of Kostrzyn nad Odrą
	Drzewice Drzewice
	Coordinates: 52°36′45″N 14°37′21″E / 52.61252°N 14.62238°E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Lubusz
County	Gorzów
Town	Kostrzyn nad Odrą
Within town limits	1952
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registration	FGW

Drzewice is the north-western borough (osiedle) of the town of Kostrzyn nad Odrą in western Poland.

During World War II, the Stalag III-C German prisoner-of-war camp for Polish, French, British, Serbian, Belgian, Italian, American and Soviet prisoners of war was located there.^[1] In 1945, the camp was liberated by the Soviet army, however, Soviet troops killed some American POWs mistaking them for enemy troops.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Megargee, Geoffrey P.; Overmans, Rüdiger; Vogt, Wolfgang (2022). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. Volume IV. Indiana University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. pp. 408–409. ISBN 978-0-253-06089-1.

[ushm-1] Megargee, Geoffrey P.; Overmans, Rüdiger; Vogt, Wolfgang (2022). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. Volume IV. Indiana University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. pp. 408–409. ISBN 978-0-253-06089-1.

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