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My friend, Joop Thuring, recalls how as a small boy he was lifted up by an elder brother in the fateful...

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Phil, Herman and I were more or less wholeheartedly determined that the lie-low policy of evading capture...

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Putting our problems to them as clearly as I could, I outlined my proposals for improving our chances of...

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I opened the window and slipped inside while Phil remained outside to keep watch from the doorway. Phil, a...

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Jan introduced us to Luitenant Schaap, the chief of police in Zierikzee, and his two henchmen, van...

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Most of the proprietary foods we found were substitutes or artificial. So we would often find Sago, Rice,...

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We knew that there was a German post at Vianen but were prepared to accept the possibility of a suitable...

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Phil and I ate this magnificent meal sitting side by side on the sloping lids of the fodder bins near the...

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It was a bizarre scene, the four of us around the work bench, Phil and I providing the light from our...

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I continued to keep my end up but it appeared that he wasn't just referring to that evening but to the...

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This time as we met van de Beek he explained that he though it was wiser if only a small group went...

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The stairs from the passage led above to a central attic off which were small bedrooms overlooking the...

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Passing Phil on the stairs we exchanged comments which reflected on the parentage or lack of in Veldwebels....

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Herman had indeed stayed in van de Beek's company from the morning of the 6th until the evening of the...

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The Germans allowed a couple of Dutch Red Cross members to come into the camp and give us a Christmas...

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While he was talking to Phil I started on the Unter-Officier with my limited German of "mussens,...

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Soon after this the silence of the corridor was disturbed by the occasional shouting out of cell numbers...

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Every morning of course there was a roll-call when all the prisoners except the lame and the halt had to...

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"Stalag Luft One located at Barth overrun by Russians 30 April contains approximately 7500 US Air Corps...

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Before this we had already sent home telegrams; received a kit issue; had a meal; showered; changed into...

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