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Stalag XI-B was a German Army POW camp near Fallingbostel in Lower Saxony, north-western Germany.

Originally a work camp at the west end of the huge German Army training grounds Bergen, it was transformed into a POW camp at the end of 1939, to serve as a base for prisoners working in Arbeitslager.
In July 1941 over 10,000 Soviet army officers were imprisoned here. Thousands of them died in the winter of 1941/42 as a result of a typhoid fever epidemic.
Later prisoners of many other nationalities were incarcerated here.
On 11 October 1944 475 women fighters of the Warsaw Uprising were transported to Fallingbostel. 90 officers and 9 orderlies were transferred to sub-camp Bergen-Belsen, then later transferred to Oflag IX-C in Molsdorf. The balance were later transferred to Stalag VI-C in Oberlangen.
In December 1944 members of the US Army 42nd Division, Co. B and G, 232 Infantry Regiment captured during the Battle of the Bulge were brought to Stalag XI-B.
On April 16, 1945 the camp was liberated by the British 8th Army.

Close to 1,000 smaller Arbeitslager, called Arbeitskommandos were operated by this stalag, including:

Eibia GmbH, Bomlitz - production of explosives and gunpowder. Under the Third Geneva Convention the use of POWs for this type of work was prohibited. However the German Army used Soviet prisoners because for them they disregarded this prohibition.
Army Ammunition Factory, Muna

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 * Later prisoners of many other nationalities were incarcerated here.
 * On 11 October 1944 475 women fighters of the [[Warsaw Uprising]] were transported to Fallingbostel. 90 officers and 9 orderlies were transferred to sub-camp Bergen-Belsen, then later transferred to [[Oflag IX-C]] in Molsdorf. The balance were later transferred to [[Stalag VI-C]] in Oberlangen.
-* In December 1944  members of the [[US Army]] 42nd Division, Co. B and G, 232 Infantry Regiment captured  during the [[Battle of the Bulge]] were brought to Stlag XI-B.
+* In December 1944  members of the [[US Army]] 42nd Division, Co. B and G, 232 Infantry Regiment captured  during the [[Battle of the Bulge]] were brought to Stalag XI-B.
 * On April 16, 1945 the camp was liberated by the [[British 8th Army]].

Main German prisoner-of-war camps for Western Allied soldiers (1944–1945)
Stalag II-D Stargard Stalag III-A Luckenwalde Stalag IV-B Mühlberg Stalag VII-A Moosburg Stalag VIII-A Görlitz Stalag 344 Lamsdorf Stalag VIII-B Teschen Stalag IX-C Bad Sulza Stalag X-B Sandbostel Marlag und Milag Nord, Westertimke Stalag XI-A Altengrabow Stalag XI-B Fallingbostel Stalag XIII-C Hammelburg Stalag XIII-D Nürnberg Stalag XX-A Thorn Stalag XX-B Marienburg Stalag XXI-D Posen
POW camps for air force personnel	Stalag Luft I Barth Stalag Luft II Litzmannstadt Stalag Luft III Sagan Stalag Luft IV Gross Tychow Stalag Luft VI Heydekrug Stalag Luft 7 Bankau
POW camps for officers	Oflag IV-C Colditz Castle Oflag VII-B Eichstätt Oflag 79 Brunswick
See also The March (1945)