KGL Rhodos was not part of the regular German prisoner of war camp system but rather an ad hoc collection camp for interned Italian soldiers, guarded by regular German troops on temporary detail. The camp existed on the Greek island of Rhodos (Rhodes) in the Aegean Sea from mid-September 1943 until March 1944 and again from November 2, 1944, until the end of the war (map 8). The camp was subordinate to the German commandant of the island of Rhodos/Admiral Aegean (Admiral Ägäis)/Army Group (Heeresgruppe) E. German troops (Sturmdivision Rhodos, Generalleutnant Kleemann) occupied the island on September 11, 1943. Italian service members (approximately 37,000) were held prisoner, pending transport to the Greek mainland, in the KGL, parts of which were located at several inhabited localities (Calato/Kalathos and Campochiaro/Eleousa, among others) (map 8).1 Fifty of the Italian military prisoners were shot as a result of sentencing by a field court-martial, and 40 others were shot without...