Word: stalag
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...When the repatriates left their camps for Göteborg, 900 Canadians in a Stalag at Lamsdorf near Breslau still wore the chains with which they were shackled soon after Dieppe. One Canadian R.A.F. private said: "When the Nazis started to handcuff us the first time, we all lined up before twelve inexpert Nazis, doing twelve prisoners at a time. In the first dozen chained men there was an escape expert, a former London bobby, who quickly showed his companions how to remove the bracelets. They chucked them under a hut and rejoined the queue. The Nazis used...
From the German prison camp designated as Stalag XX a British soldier wrote to his small daughter...