Bergen-Hohne Training Area
During the Third Reich the German armed forces, the Wehrmacht established a prisoner-of-war camp in Oerbke in which up to 30,000 soldiers from the Red Army were housed. After 1945 Oerbke Camp was initially used by the British Forces as a detention centre and displaced persons camp. Later the Oerbke East settlement ("Ostsiedlung Oerbke") was used for troops exercising on the Bergen-Hohne Training Area.