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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REGISTRY NUMBER S-133
COPY NO.11711/JOURNAL
Confidential, Signal Operations Instructions, Telephone & Teletypewriter Directory, Item N° 26-8, 30th Infantry Division, August 3 1944
Effective : Upon Receipt
Note : In compliance with letter date July 20 1944, FUSA, file 676.12 (Sig) the following will be introduced and become effective at all echelons. The use of code name ‘CREST’ designating the 30th Infantry Division Rear Echelon is dropped and henceforth 30th Infantry Division Rear Echelon will be designated as ‘CUSTOM-REAR’.
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