Ruhleben POW Camp
Ruhleben internment camp was a civilian detention camp in Germany during World War I. It was located in Ruhleben, a former ''Folwark, Vorwerk'' manor to the west of Berlin, now split between the districts of Spandau and Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. The camp was originally a harness racing track laid out north of the Berlin-Hamburg Railway line in 1908. Detainees The camp detainees included male citizens of the Allies of World War I, Allied Powers living, studying, working or on holiday in Germany at the outbreak of World War I. They also included the crews of several civilian ships stranded in German harbours or captured at sea. As well, there were a number of fishermen captured from trawlers which had been sunk in the North Sea in the first days of the war: they were mainly men from Kingston upon Hull, Hull, Grimsby and Boston, Lincolnshire, Boston. Numbers in the camp varied between 4,000 and 5,500 prisoners, most of them United Kingdom, British. Life in the camp was describe ...
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Ruhleben Prison Camp - Panoramic View Art
This is a disambiguation page. Ruhleben may refer to *Ruhleben - an area in Berlin, Germany, within the localities of Westend (Berlin), Westend and Spandau (locality), Spandau *Ruhleben (Berlin U-Bahn) - a Berlin underground station *Ruhleben internment camp - a World War I detention camp for enemy civilians *Ruhleben Barracks - a German naval barracks in Plön, Holstein {{disambiguation ...
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