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  • Spatial Coverage is exactly "Germany--Luckenwalde"

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Shot down 12/9/44. Captured after 8 days. List camps Dulag Luft, Stalag Luft 7 and Stalag IIIIA. Liberated by the Russians.

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Covers events after the evacuation of Stalag Luft VII to Stalag 3A. Provides daily description of events from 10 April 1945 to 14 April 1945. Describes waiting to move and rations.

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Sketch map of Germany and Poland showing route from capture at Rastatt via Dulag Luft to Stalag Luft 7 and the long march to Luckenwalde.

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Provides some description of evacuation from Stalag Luft 7 at Bankau. Mentions that 400 had died since leaving and provides some other details about cigarettes, food, air raid risk, Hitlers edict that allied airmen should be shot (not carried out).…

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Laying out responsibilities of British for administration and security of the camp. Mentions work done, food situation critical. Comments on problems of Russian refusal to allow American officer representing Supreme allied commander to carry out his…

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Brief details of shoot down, capture and time at Dulag Luft and Stalag Luft 7 in 1944 before moving to Stalag 3A early 1945. Liberated by Russians and flight home.

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Russian and Americans liberate the camp. Russian with an accordion and a young woman. Behind are American soldiers

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John writes from Stalag 3A on VE day. He is not sure when he will get home. He is very excited and has lots of plans.

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A newspaper article about John's return from captivity.

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Two newspaper cuttings.
#1 is titled 'Huns move RAF POW camp'. The move was to transfer POWs away from Russian operations.
#2 refers to the transfer of RAF men westwards for release. A handwritten note states 'E. Standard 17/5/45'.

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A book kept by John during his internment as a POW. It has a comment made by Churchill when he was a POW, a poem to Bomber Command by Noel Coward, signatures of fellow POWs, notes on his early days as a POW, rations (not always received) and a list…

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A formal record of statements made at their conference, the previous evening. POWs are being denied their freedom, food is inadequate and overcrowding is an issue. The Russians have refused to allow the evacuation of British and American POWs.
As a…

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A series of documents detailing events at Luckenwalde in the final stages of the war.

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Two notes.
#1 requests electric circuit wire materials and tyre repair/ new bicycle materials.
#2 tyre repair materials

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Two photographs of huts at Stalag 3A.

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A sketch map of a prisoner of war camp. Individual barracks are numbered. On a post-it is written 'Map of Luckenwald or Belaria? Sagan, Leipzig [indecipherable]'.

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A description of the conditions at Stalag 3A.

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Bob Burns trained as a navigator and was posted to 106 Squadron at RAF Metheringham. His aircraft came under attack from a night fighter and the centrifugal force pinned the crew down and making an escape impossible.
Suddenly the aircraft broke in…
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