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Wildflecken is a municipality within the Bad Kissingen district, on the border of northwestern Bavaria and southern Hesse. Wildflecken is within the picturesque Rhon hills and nature-park. In 1937 the German Army installed a huge schooling region inside the Rhoen area. Northeast of the village a camp, huge enough to house approximately 9,000 infantrymen and 1,500 horses become built. The camp and education-region was in most cases utilized by the German Army as well as through the Waffen-SS.

During the struggle numerous Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS divisions had been activated and skilled for fight in Wildflecken. Also placed in Wildflecken had been an ammunition factory and POW camps, one for Russian POWs and one for POWs of Belgian and French starting place. In 1945 factors of the U.S. 14th Armored Division took manage of the camp and the schooling place in April 1945. From April 1945 to 1951, the base become a displaced individuals camp housing approximately 20,000 displaced people, mostly Poles, operated first by means of UNRRA, then by way of IRO. A Polish cemetery holds the camp's citizens who died for the duration of those five years.

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