SCENES AT STALAG VIIIB,(LAMSDORF) PRISONER OF WAR CAMP

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Sergeant Albert Willis, a prisoner, displays his manacled hands for the camera, in a clandestine photograph taken by William Lawrence to document evidence of German mistreatment of prisoners in the camp. The hands of prisoners at Stalag VIIIB were bound every day from morning parade until the evening parade for a period of 14 months as a German reprisal for alleged Allied mistreatment of German prisoners during the Canadian raid on Dieppe. Initially cord was used, until sufficient handcuffs were supplied.(HU 47238)
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Sergeant Jack Diamond,(HU 47237)
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Close up of the handcuffed hands of a prisoner of war holding a Red Cross parcel......(HU47242)
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Initially cord was used, until sufficient handcuffs were supplied. Left to right: Jack Hawkins, Tony Parnell, unknown, Dan Mooney and ? Bennett RCAF.(HU 47240)
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At dawn on 22 January 1945 the German evacuated the Stalag VIIIB camp. All prisoners of war who could walk were marched off. Those who survived the arduous conditions of the forced march eventually reached Brunswick. The sick and disabled were left behind. These included William Lawrence who took this clandestine photograph through the window of the camp hospital.
(HU 47247)
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