She was at Buna camp for over 8 years.
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The majority of prisoners of war (POWs) were Allied airmen, whose planes crashed in Occupied France, Belgium or Holland. Anyone who supported the German forces would report these airmen to their local authoritary, and troops or police officers would be sent to round them up.
That varied a lot, especially in the early stages. In the 1930s a few lucky people were released after a few weeks or months. However, most prisoners were held indefinitely or until they died of were killed. For example, Ernst Thaelmann, who had led the Communist Party of Germany was held from 1933 till 1944, when he was murdered. Obviously, in the extermination camps people were killed soon after arrival or worked to death on grossly inadequate food.
Many of them were just hoping that they might be given some boots sometime! (Incidentally there were no left or right boots. Civil War boots were only one shape. You trod them in.) In the later half of the war, many Confederates were doomed to stay barefoot, unless they won a battle, when they could strip the enemy of their boots - including the dead men.
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1777 because thats when the winter came and so they had to stay there. ~A.B.R.~