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The Establishment of POW Camps in Canada and the Transfer of the Captured Afrika Corpsmen to Canada 1941-1942
From: Hanged in Medicine Hat
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In this chapter, Greenfield traces how Canada accepted captured German Afrika Corpsmen between 1941 and 1942, following the North African campaigns. He describes Private August Plaszek’s journey from Tobruk to a camp near Medicine Hat, Alberta.
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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.
