Sandbostel

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Sandbostel
Coat of arms	Location

Administration
Country	Germany
State	Lower Saxony
District	Rotenburg (Wümme)
Municipal assoc.	Selsingen
Local subdivisions	4
Mayor	Johann Gerken (WGO)
Basic statistics
Area	31.54 km² (12.2 sq mi)
Elevation	8 m (26 ft)
Population	830 (31/12/2006)
- Density	26 /km² (68 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	ROW
Postal code	27446
Area codes	04284, 04764
Website	www.selsingen.de Coordinates: 53°24′34″N 09°07′50″E / 53.40944, 9.13056

Sandbostel is a municipality in Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) in northwestern Germany, 43 km north-east of Bremen, 60 km west of Hamburg. Coordinates: 53° 25′ N, 9° 8′ E. Population: 816 (2005)

In World War II a notorious Prisoner-of-war camp Stalag X-B was located here. A couple of the original camp buildings still exist in the commercial estate Immenhaim. The cemetery in which several thousand prisoners are buried in mass graves is just outside the town. There is a memorial to them.

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Documentation and Memorial Site Sandbostel

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