There were over 5,000 Allied Merchant seamen captured by the German forces during WWII. Some 4,500 of these mariners were held at the Merchant Navy Internment camp at Westertimke, near Bremen, Germany.
MILAG - The Marine Internierten Lager, was first created as one of two compounds inside Sandbostel Concentration camp, south of Bremervorde, Germany, for the purpose of housing captured Merchant seamen. An adjoining compound, MARLAG - the Marine Lager, being for captured Royal Navy personnel.
Between the Autumn of 1941 and the Spring of 1942 the occupants of these compounds were transferred to Marlag und Milag Nord, two separate but adjacent camps at Westertimke, 20 kilometres away. It is this virtually self-contained Merchant Navy POW camp that was referred to by the Merchant Seamen as MILAG, their previous compound in the concentration camp being generally known just as Sandbostel or Stalag XB.
MarlagundMilagNord was a Prisoner-of-war camp in Military District X, located near Westertimke, Germany.
Milag (for Marine Internierten Lager), was first created as one of two compounds inside Sandbostel Concentration camp, south of Bremervorde, Germany, for the purpose of housing captured Merchant seamen.
Between the Autumn of 1941 and the Spring of 1942 the occupants of these compounds were transferred to MarlagundMilagNord, two separate but adjacent camps at Westertimke, 20 kilometres away.
MarlagundMilagNord was a Prisoner-of-war camp Prisoner-of-war camp is a site for the containment of persons captured by the enemy in time of war.
Milag (for Marine Internierten Lager), was first created as one of two compounds inside Sandbostel Concentration campconcentration camp is a large detention center created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war.
An adjoining compound, Marlag (for Marine Lager) was for captured Royal NavyRoyal Navy of the United Kingdom is the "senior service" of the armed services, being the oldest of its three branches.
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