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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1918
Page
3
The account details two weeks in Courtrai prison camp with air raids, cooties fumigation, bread and jam meals, a cosmopolitan mix of inmates, and a planned but unrealized escape. The narrator describes guards, visitors, a prison banquet, and imagined escape routes including disguise, a Gotha aircraft, and river crossings.
I describe being moved from Courtray to a German prison camp on September 9 with seven officers. I recall plotting to steal a map from an interpreter, then enduring cramped transport and taunting crowds as guards taunted us. I resolve to try one last escape, determined to win liberty at any cost.
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