Stalag XX-A (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Stalag XX-A was a German World War II PoW Camp located in Thorn/Toru?, Poland. It was not a single camp and contained as many as 20,000 men at its peak. The main camp was located in a complex of fifteen forts that surrounded the whole of the city. The forts had been built by Prussians at the end of 19th century to defend the western border of Prussia.September 1939 some of the forts were used as P.O.W. camps for Polish prisoners, specifically those captured after the surrender of the Polish fort at Westerplatte at the mouth of the river Vistula and on the Hel peninsula. In June 1940 additional forts were added to the camp to accommodate British soldiers.