Very interesting website for those who are working on US POWS during WW-2 in Germany, a great site from Leo Finegold – 30th Infantry Division Old Hickory
Stalag 3A. Two hundred thousand prisoners of war passed through its gates during World War II, beginning in 1939. Those remaining in the camp at the close of the war were liberated by the Russians in April 1945. Approximately 5,000 died from disease, starvation, cold, brutality and neglect.
In April 1945, the Stalag held approximately four thousand American POW’s in a compound separated from other nationalities. Crowded four hundred men to a tent, the day to day routine was an exercise in misery, hunger, cold, and lice. A chief preoccupation involved tediously removing
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