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Stalag III-C was a German Army World War II POW camp for Allied soldiers. It was located on a plain near the village of Alt Drewitz bei Küstrin in the Neumark of the state of Brandenburg (now Drzewice Kostrzyn nad Odrą Poland) about 50 mi (80 km) east of Berlin.Initially the camp served as a place of internment for several thousand soldiers and NCOs from Poland France Britain Yugoslavia and Belgium. From 1943 a number of Italian POWs were also held there.