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  • Tags: Stalag 8B

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He has received several letters and repeats a request for a pipe.

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He is well and waiting for parcels, preferably cigarettes.

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He is well but has not heard from his parents lately.

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He is well but has not had any mail recently.

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He is well and has received mail. He has cigarettes and asks for more.

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He is well and hopes his parents have a good Christmas.

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Landscape view of open yard with a set of goalposts infront of a series of single story cabins, in far background are high fence posts with wire between them, yard has clusters of men moving in multiple directions. Captioned '“British POWs at…

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Map of Eastern Europe with prisoner of war camps marked with Stalag Luft I, III, IV and VI underlined.

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Card with drawing of a black shape with eyes looking out and text ‘Oh! Mr Smith! Puh-leeze!’ and 'Many a girl with negative personality has been developed in a dark room'.

This card was sent by Todd to his mother.

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Card with drawing of an airman with woman on lap, birthday greetings to Jess. Text 'He: - I'm just groping for words. She:- well you won't find them there'.

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Top - view inside a building showing block of toilets in the centre and wash basins against far wall. Submitted with description ' Toilets at Lamsdorf POW Camp, Stalag VIIIB. (Stalag 344 from 1943)'
Bottom - air-to-air photograph of the front of a…

MThomsonGB1572977-240131-61.pdf
Includes prisoner of war news, articles on Prussian prisoners in fifteenth centaury, foreign language classes, life in the camps, Canadian Chaplains impressions, camp comradeship, PoW book service, a letter from Cuba, post war reconstruction,…

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From George Grundy thanking her for her letter and comments on the letter contents.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

MDryhurstHG1332214-160608-05.pdf
This is an acount of an operation to Nuremberg on 28 August 1942, when a Halifax aircraft was attacked and shot down by a night fighter. It recounts the capture, interrogation and transport to prisoner of war camp. It describes camp occupants,…

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The treatment of prisoners on a forced march with limited food and medical supplies in the winter of 1945.

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Gives a detailed account of "death march" by 30,000 allied prisoners of war from Poland during last months of the second world war, in appalling weather conditions, as the Russian advanced. He tells of thousands of German civilians also making their…

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A scale plan of the POW camp, Stalag VIIIB

MCurnockRM1815605-171114-017.pdf
News-sheet of the RAF ex-POW Association. This edition covers the large Canadian reunion of 1985 at Calgary, the Annual Dinner at Lords, Recco report of ex-POW activities, requests for help, Alan Bryett's lectures, the Association's AGM and annual…

MCurnockRM1815605-171114-024.pdf
The official journal of the Prisoners of War Department of the Red Cross and St John War Organisation. This edition covers the Food Situation about food parcel delivery, Editors comments, Sport reports from the Camps, suggestions for parcel contents,…

MCurnockRM1815605-171114-020.pdf
The official journal of the Prisoners of War Department of the Red Cross and St John War Organisation. This edition covers the editor's comments, How the Convoys got through, photographs of ex-POWs titled 'Victory Smiles', Finding his Feet -…

MCurnockRM1815605-171114-021.pdf
The official journal of the Prisoners of War Department of the Red Cross and St John War Organisation. This edition covers the Editors comments, Repatriation Arrangements, Liberation comes to Stalag IXA, Behind the Scenes about theatrical endeavours,…

MCurnockRM1815605-171114-023.pdf
The official journal of the Prisoners of War Department of the Red Cross and St John War Organisation. This edition covers the Editors comments, POWs released by the Russians, ex-Internees welcomed home, entertainment at the Camps, Escaped Prisoners…

MWhiteheadT1502391-180307-17.pdf
Includes: editorial matters; all in a day's work; life in a Japanese prison camp; fun and games; letters they write home; official reports from the camps; group photographs from the camps; how next of kin are helping (including knitting pattern for…