Summary

Title: Report on Stalag Luft I

Author/Interviewer: U.S. Military Intelligence Service, War Department 

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Publication date: July 15 1944

Summary: Account of conditions in German POW camp Stalag Luft I, based on prisoner's accounts.

See also: POW: The Experiences of an American Airman in German Stalags from April 1942 to July 1945 by Dr. Edgar Moore

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Retirement; Larksfield Place; Wars; World War Two; WWII; Prisoner of War; POW; P.O.W.; Stalag Luft I; Barth Germany; Baltic Sea; Stralsund Germany; Army Air Force; AAF; Royal Air Force; RAF; Red Cross; the Rev. J. Hall; Col. J. B. Byerly; Oberst Scherer; Maj. Wilson Todd; Col. William A. Hatcher; Col. Hubert Zenke; Capt. M. W. Zahn; Col. C. Greening; Col. E. A. Manstrom; Lt. Col. C. Wilson; Lt. Col. f. S. Gabreski; Capt. C. T. Weir; Lt. Col. J. V. C. Wilson; Lt. Col. Luther Richmond; Lt. Col. B. E. McKenzie; Maj. J. J. Fischer; Lt. T. L. Simmons; 1st Let. J. S. Durakov; Oberst Sherer; Oberst Warnstadt; Hauptmann Tems; Hauptmann Erisch; Major Buchard; Hauptmann Eilers; Hauptmann Wolf; Hauptmann von Beck; Hauptmann Luckt; Maj. Opperman; Hauptmann Erbsich; Mah. Schroeder; Hauptmann von Stradiot; Hauptmann Probst; Maj. Steinhower; Maj. Sprotte; Maj. Steinhower; Hauptmann Bloom; Hauptmann Probst; Nazis; starvation period; sanitation; clothing; food; morale; welfare; religion; recreation; liberation by Russians; evacuation