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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1918
Page
6
A German prison camp diary recounts morale, the meals, a makeshift potato banquet, and a daring escape bid. Officers from Britain Canada Ireland Scotland and more share ordeals, the cosmopolitan guard, and an ongoing quest for freedom.
The narrator recalls being held in Courtrai for about three weeks before a September 9 transfer to a German prison camp. A guard reveals the plan to deter air raids by moving prisoners to a retribution camp in Strassburg, citing German hospital ships and torpedoing myths. He had earlier sought a map of Germany from a German interpreter for a potential escape.
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