The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word STALAG
I've seen this crossword clue in The Times
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More clues leading to the result STALAG
- Dug-out tunnels reviewed by a prisoner here?
- Site that is missing a prisoner? Not one for that kind
- Camp male’s maintaining apparel on the outside
- Camp site oddly in the style of golf
- Left-leaning parties saving time where men were detained
- Upset girls hiding at German camp full of belligerent men
- Unpopular Soviet leader visiting a German POW camp …
- Camp, all male – see inside
- War-time camp has a prisoner kept below street
- Soviet leader chucked in a German camp
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The straight part
We know that "a prisoner here" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case a prisoner here = stalag.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does STALAG mean?
STALAG noun- A German prisoner-of-war camp, especially in World War II.
- A genre of Nazi exploitation Holocaust pornography in Israel that flourished in the 1950s and early 1960s.