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Halbmondlager

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thumb|POWs in the Halbmondlager (April 1915) thumb|Wünsdorf Mosque thumb|Interned Soviet soldiers of Muslim faith, who had fled the Polish-Soviet War into East Prussia, Germany, attending the mosque in Wünsdorf, in the early 1920s

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thumb|POWs in the Halbmondlager (April 1915) thumb|Wünsdorf Mosque thumb|Interned Soviet soldiers of Muslim faith, who had fled the Polish-Soviet War into East Prussia, Germany, attending the mosque in Wünsdorf, in the early 1920s

The '''' was a prisoner-of-war camp in Wünsdorf (now part of Zossen), Germany, during the First World War. The name translates as Crescent Camp or Half-Moon Camp'' (sometimes also used as a name in English publications) and refers to the crescent, a symbol of Islam.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Halbmondlager” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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