Britain’s largest World War II POW camp uncovered in an English forest

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Researchers have uncovered a prisoner-of-war camp in the forests of Britain that once held Adolf Hitler’s successor as leader of the Third Reich.

Lodge Moor, near Sheffield in northern England, was the largest POW camp in Britain during World War II. It held roughly 11,000 prisoners from Germany, Italy, and Ukraine at the camp’s peak in 1944.

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