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REPATRIATED AUSTRALIAN PRISONERS (Rec. 12.25 p.m.) SYDNEY, Dec. 13. One hundred and eighty-five repatriated A.I.F. prisoners of war have arrived at an Australian port by hospital ship. They were 53 days on the journey from the time they left their German prison camp until they arrived in Australia. Most of the men w,ere captured in the Greece and Crete campaigns of early 1941. All are either medically unfit or protected personnel.
The returned prisoners said they owed their lives to Red Cross parcels of food and clothing. They saw 3.500 Russians die in one camp in less than three mouths from ill treatment, hunger, and disease.
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Evening Star, Issue 25046, 13 December 1943, Page 3
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109BACK FROM GERMANY Evening Star, Issue 25046, 13 December 1943, Page 3
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