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Rex v. Werner Schwalb February 25 to March 5, 1946
From: Hanged in Medicine Hat
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In this chapter, Greenfield recounts the 1946 trial of Werner Schwalb, a German prisoner of war prosecuted in Medicine Hat, Alberta, for the hanging of fellow prisoner August Plaszek in 1943.
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Nathan Greenfield
Nathan Greenfield was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York; he came to Canada to study at McGill in 1980. He is the author of six military histories. His expertise in Canadian POW escapers and evaders in the World War II resulted in the writing of a history of escape and evasion for the professional development centre of the Canadian Special Operations Forces Command (CANSOFCOM). Nathan is the North American correspondent for the University World News.
