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  • Administration & school building at Camp 30.jpg

    Photo by Unknown via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • Beds at Boys Training School, Bowmanville c. 1925.jpg

    Photo by Unknown via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • Bowmanville boys school to house Nazi officer prisoners.jpg

    Photo by Unknown via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • Bowmanville POW camp - Cafeteria and site of "Battle of Bowmanville" - Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada.jpg

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  • Bowmanville POW camp panorama (2016).jpg

    Photo by Magnolia677 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

  • Boys Training School Bowmanville, c. 1925.jpg

    Photo by Unknown via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • Boys Training School, Bowmanville c. 1925.jpg

    Photo by Unknown via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • Cafeteria at Camp 30, Bowmanville.jpg

    Photo by Unknown via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

Background

The Bowmanville POW camp, also known as Camp 30, was a Canada administered POW camp for German soldiers during World War II located on 2020 Lambs Road in the community of Bowmanville, Ontario in Clarington, Ontario, Canada. In September 2013, the camp was designated a National Historic Site of Canada. In 1943, prisoners Otto Kretschmer and Wolfgang Heyda were the subject of an elaborate escape named Operation Kiebitz.

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Notable inmates

  • Otto Kretschmer
    Otto Kretschmer
    1912–1998 · naval officer

    Otto Kretschmer (1 May 1912 – 5 August 1998) was a German naval officer and submariner in World War II and the Cold War. From September 1939 until his capture in March 1941 he sank 47 ships, including one warship, for a record total of 274,333 tons.

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2020 Lambs Road

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