A German military prison camp, especially one used during World War II to hold enemy soldiers.
From German 'Stammlager,' combining 'Stamm' (main or base) and 'Lager' (camp). The abbreviated form 'Stalag' was used by the Germans themselves and became common in English during WWII.
Stalag camps were brutal prisoner-of-war camps where conditions were often horrific, and many famous escape stories come from them—'The Great Escape' took place at Stalag Luft III, and it became the template for every WWII escape movie that followed.
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