The job was loading tinned jam and meat onto the train for the Germans fighting at the Russian front. For...
When we reached the town's suburbs the Russians who were quite well aware that prisoners were missing...
After 6 months training in morse code, I was able to take down German army messages at the highest...
He was true to his word and returned with a map - very up to date and containing the new German and...
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We went on more manoeuvres and exercises at Salisbury and were placed under the command of 1st British...
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It struck me then that there had been very few Red Army soldiers at the stations between Martuk and the...
After three months they sent us back to the main stalag where they put us to work digging up graves in a...
Russian prisoners were treated abominably by the Germans, and they did not have the protection of the Red...
Despite living in Warsaw during the German occupation I have happy memories of this time , being with my...
Eventually I, with my two mates Colin McDonald, the Aussie, and Ralph Green, joined a 24 strong working...
We were living at the time in a holiday resort in the mountains and we were a family of five, mother and...
It did worry us during our short stop over in Germany seeing flights of German bombers passing overhead and...
I was carrying a Boyes anti tank rifle, anyway, so what happened, they were shelling and mortaring, they...
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Frau Walterherr asked me what my name was in German and I replied "Bob or Robert" She said because...
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My father feared for his life and tried to persaude one brother and his younger sister Channa,with whom he...
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