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            <text>Slept in snow&#13;
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A great many of the prisoners were in that terrible back march across Germany after the East Prussian prisoner-of-war camp was evacuated. They were on the road every day for nine, ten or 11 weeks.&#13;
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At night they had to lie down in the snow to sleep; by day they were prodded with rifle butts as they trduged [sic] along the road. Many died from cold and starvation.&#13;
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Their comrades will never forgive the Germans. They showed me their frost-bitten feet and fingers as evidence of their agonies. In the prison hospital</text>
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              <text>This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.</text>
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