Life improves for British POWs

3rd November 1941: Parcels from home are a salvation for those locked up

Nov 3, 2021

A view of POWs walking in the snow at Stalag Luft III, Sagan, a watchtower can be seen in the background. Official German Photograph.

For some men it would be a very long war. Thousands of British servicemen had been captured during the fall of France in May 1940. They had been route marched back to camps in Germany, where for many months they endured ve…

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