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| Map of Germany showing: In Red where John was captured, processed as a German POW and the two known camps where he was incarcerated. In Light blue the route he took escaping from the camp and making his way to the American lines in May 1945. |
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| John was captured November 28, 1944 in Wissenbourgh in France on the German boarder. He was processed as a POW in Limburg am Lahn on December 1, 1944. Subsequently he was moved to Stalag IV B in Muhlberg near Dresden and then to Stalag IV A near Holnstein/Bad Schandau. The war ended in Europe on May 7, 1945 and he and other American POW started making their was towards the American lines at Chemnitz |
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