Stalag III-C was a German Army World War II prisoner-of-war camp for Allied soldiers.
It was located on a plain near the village of Alt Drewitz bei Küstrin then located in the Neumark of the province of Brandenburg (now Drzewice, Kostrzyn nad Odrą, Poland), about 50 mi (80 km) east of Berlin.
[1] Initially the camp served as a place of internment for several thousand soldiers and NCOs from Poland, France, Britain, Yugoslavia and Belgium.
[4] Wounded during a German air attack, he was evacuated to a Soviet military hospital, from where he was sent to Moscow to the U.S. Embassy.
(His son, John Beyrle, returned there to serve as United States Ambassador to Russia 2008–2012.)