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The Murder of August Plaszek July 22, 1943
From: Hanged in Medicine Hat
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In this chapter, Greenfield describes how on the afternoon of July 22, 1943, German POW August Plaszek was hanged by fellow inmates at Camp 132 in Medicine Hat, Alberta, after a prisoner "court of honour" was convened into rumoured anti-Nazi sentiment among former French Foreign Legionnaires.
Contributors
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.
