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Originally Posted by Alfred.MONZAT
Middlebrook's Bomber Command War Diaries quotes 493 foreigners out of its 1294.
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Actually he quotes 493 foreigners in one camp, but there were many more.
On the Volksbund website, you can find the description of one cemetery in Neheim where the 893 victims of the flood were buried:
_ 131 identified German men, women and children
_ 50 unknown Germans,
_ 59 French prisoners of war
_ 7 Belgian prisoners of war
_ 14 Dutch civil workers
_ 632 men and women of Polish, Ukrainian and Russian nationalities who were forced to work in the local defense industry.
Source:
https://www.volksbund.de/graebersuch...iedhofergebnis
That means that there were more French POWs killed (59) than the 39 I could find in the online databases.
Also it answers one of my questions: the Dutch are registered as civil workers, not as forced workers. I don't know if a forced work service existed in May 1943 in Netherlands (it started shortly later in France).
Also there were 7 Belgian POWs killed, but I don't know how to identify them.