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POWs Photo queries
This picture belongs to a friend. The chap arrowed is his grandfather who was a Palestine Pioneer captured in Greece in 1941. He thinks this picture was taken in Lamsdorf POW camp and shows a group of Palestine Pioneers
But there are some anomalies. The chap centre row is wearing a torin cap? with what looks like a star badge. Directly above him is a chap in a cap with what looks like a boss badge?? And there are some other odd caps. Of course in a POW camp not much was regulation ... Has anybody any comments which might progress the debate? Eddie |
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Loaned uniforms
My wife was married previously and her first father-in-law had been captured in Crete. There were several similar photographs which I passed on to her son. My wife said that her father-in-law and his comrades had been loaned uniforms by the Germans specially for the photographs.
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That is interesting! presumably their own were too worn or dirty to reflect well on their captors? Or might there have been some more sinister -propaganda? - purpose in kitting them out. That would certainly explain the oddities, though. Much like trying to get uniform information from still shots of movie actors: almost anything is possible, depending on how clued in/caring wardrobe was oe wasn't.
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