Bossmovo
May I correct the story of the liberating of Stalag IVb?
The Germans left on the 22nd April 1945. The only incident was by a group who began to tear down the Polish hut, as the Poles chose to go with the Germans. "Snowshoes: Jack Meyers, RCAF, the Man of Confidence, managed to persuade them to stop. At 07-00 on the 23rd April the Russians entered the camp to liberate us. All Russian POWs were ordered to leave by 10-00 hrs and my friend, the Russian doctor, came to see me and say "goodbye." He was convinced they were heading for Siberia, "as they had been contaminated by associating by the west." As soon as they had left, our Medical Orderlies checked through the Russian huts to make sure that the Typhus victims were really dead. The Russians carried newly dead on parade to get their rations for a day or two. The guards stood well back and would not go into the huts for fear of Typhus. The huts were then burned. The Kommandatur was not burnt and it was easy to get one's German documents. I have mine still intact. fredjhh