Sandbostel
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Sandbostel is a small town in the province Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) north-western Germany, 43 km north-east of Bremen, 60 km west of Hamburg. Coordinates: 53° 25′ N, 9° 8′ E. Population: 816 (2005)
In World War II a notorious Prisoner-of-war camp Stalag X-B was located here. A couple of the original camp buildings still exist in the commercial estate Immenhaim. The cemetery in which several thousand prisoners are buried in mass graves is just outside the town. There is a memorial to them.
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