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30-12-10, 11:41 PM
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French Insignia, POW ?????
I have this insignia which is showing the Pétain-era Francisque with the word Stalag III C surimposed.Can anyone have a guess at what it could represent, this insignia is rather well made and not something made in a POW camp.
Something worn by former POW and an ardent pro-Pétain........ http://www.militaria.qc.ca/v1.jpg http://www.militaria.qc.ca/v3.jpg All comments will be appreciated. Jo A short history of Stalag III C: Stalag III-C Alt-Drewitz was a German Army World War II POW camp for Allied soldiers. It was located on a plain near the village of Alt-Drewitz (now Drzewice, one of the boroughs of the town of Kostrzyn nad Odrą). Initially the camp served as a place of internment of several thousands of soldiers and NCOs from Poland, France, Britain, Yugoslavia and Belgium. Since 1943 also a number of Italian POWs were kept there. The majority of the Soviet prisoners (up to 12,000) were killed or starved to death. Most of the lower rank prisoners were sent to Arbeitskommandos to work in industry and on farms in Brandenburg. However the administration stayed with the Stammlager.
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