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Central Power Prisoners of World War I The first German Prisoners of War arrived at Dorchester camp on August 10, 1944. At a maximum the camp held about 4,500 prisoners. During World War I about 44 men died at Dorchester. Two other early camps were Queens Ferry and Lancaster. When soldiers were captured by the Russians there wasn't enough room at the camps so many German, Austrian-Hungarian and Bulgarian soldiers and soliders from the Ottoman Empire were sent to Siberia along with other soldiers. Captive soldiers were allowed to be used as laborers because of a pre-war agreement. While held captive by the Russians, many soldiers were doing labor in agriculture and industry. This means that many of them were sent west. During World War I many Central Power soldiers were captured and finally released at the end of the war.