Świętoszów

Infobox Settlement
name = Świętoszów
settlement_type = Village
total_type =


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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = POL
subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship
subdivision_name1 = Lower Silesian
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Bolesławiec
subdivision_type3 = Gmina
subdivision_name3 = Osiecznica
latd = 51
latm = 28
lats =
latNS = N
longd = 15
longm = 24
longs =
longEW = E
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elevation_m =
population_total = 1556
website = http://www.10bkpanc.sow.mil.pl/swietoszow/index.htm

Świętoszów IPA-pl| [|ś|f|j|e|n|'|t|o|sz|u|w|] ( _de. Neuhammer) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Osiecznica, within Bolesławiec County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Prior to 1945 it was in Germany.

It lies approximately convert|16|km|mi|0 north of Osiecznica, convert|26|km|mi|0 north-west of Bolesławiec, and convert|121|km|mi|0 west of the regional capital Wrocław. The village has a population of 1,556.

In the late 19th century the German Army created a very large training ground here. In World War I it was the site of a large prisoner-of-war camp for Russian soldiers. In World War II another POW camp Stalag VIII-E was built here, to house Polish and French prisoners. In 1942 they were replaced with Soviet prisoners, and the camp was placed under the administration of Stalag VIII-C near Żagań. At least 50,000 Soviet prisoners died here from disease, starvation and inhumane treatment, the last 200 of them killed as traitors after the war by the NKVD. A Red Army base until about 1990, today it is the site of a Polish Army base.

ee also

* Stalag VIII-E

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