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POW Oflag Murnau, late 1944

Murnau, Germany

Polish officers
My uncle with his famous pipe

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Jean Chiasson16-Dec-2016 21:23
Splendid portrait BV
clickA SF28-Oct-2015 22:07
Much appreciated. Thank you, Tom!
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Tom Briggs26-Oct-2015 17:10
This was a special camp for senior Polish commanders. The camp was created in September 1939. It consisted of an enclosure 200 m (660 ft) square, surrounded with barbed wire and guard towers. Immediately after the German invasion of Poland, at the beginning of World War II, some 1,000 Polish officers were imprisoned there. On April 27, 1942, additional Polish POWs were transferred there from the so-called "Generals' Camp" Oflag VIII-E in Johannisbrunn, Sudetenland (now Janské Koupele, Czech Silesia). After the failed Warsaw Uprising and "Operation Tempest" more prisoners were brought there from Poland. By early 1945 the number of POWs held in the camp reached over 5,000.

The camps was liberated by troops of the U.S. 12th Armored Division on 29 April 1945.[1]
Julie Oldfield09-May-2015 17:06
Wow.....love this. V
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