Halbmondlager

The name literally translates as Half-Moon Camp (sometimes also used as a name in English publications)[1] and refers to the crescent as a symbol of Islam.

The intended purpose of the camp was to convince detainees to wage jihad against the United Kingdom and France.

[4] About 80 Sikh prisoners and Hindus from British India were also held in the camp, as well as around 50 Irishmen, and two Australian Aboriginal soldiers (Roland Carter and Douglas Grant).

He established an office nearby to lead a propaganda campaign with the "show camp", "self-consciously styled as a theatre for the wider world", at its centre.

Oppenheim was assisted by Shaykh Sâlih al-Sharîf, a Tunisian who had served in the Ottoman Empire's intelligence agency.

POWs in the Halbmondlager
Wünsdorf Mosque
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
Cemetery