Stalag III-A was a German World War II prisoner-of-war (POW) camp at Luckenwalde, Brandenburg, 52 kilometres (32 mi) south of Berlin.

It housed Polish, Dutch, Belgian, French, Yugoslav, Russian, Italian, American, Romanian, British and other POWs.

[2] The French were joined in 1941 by Yugoslav and Russian prisoners, then in late 1943 some 15,000 Italian military internees arrived, though most were quickly dispersed to other camps.

Finally, as the Russians approached the guards fled the camp leaving the prisoners to be liberated by the Red Army on 22 April 1945.

The camp was generally run according to the guidelines of the Geneva Convention and the Hague Regulations, and was regularly inspected by representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Russian POWs were excluded from this on the grounds that the USSR was not a signatory of the Geneva Convention, and had significantly poorer conditions as a result.