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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Lieut. Hans Strehl, 23, and Lieut. Siegfried Schmidt, 25, both Nazi airmen, both prisoners of war at the Fort Henry internment camp outside Kingston, Ont., seem to have literal minds. Not long ago they apparently got a copy of Pickwick Papers from the camp library, and came across the passage in which Weller the elder suggested that the hero escape from his imprisonment in the Fleet with the help of a piano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, PRISONERS: Dickens of a Time | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...Lieuts, Strehl and Schmidt seemingly decided that old Weller, whose super-cockney sounded like their own German accent of English, had something there. They made their plans slowly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, PRISONERS: Dickens of a Time | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...half-opened panel. The bookkeeper, who in all his years around pianofortes had never seen one with a man in it, called the police. They found the young man had 25 feet of quarter-inch rope wound around his leg, carried vitamin tablets in his pockets. He was Hans Strehl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, PRISONERS: Dickens of a Time | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

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