AUSSIE PRISONERS
HOME FROM GERMANY SYDNEY, Dec. 13. One hundred and eighty-five repatriated A.I.F. prisoners of war have arrived at an Australian .port by a 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 were captured in the Greece and Crete campaigns early in 1941. All are either medically unfit or are protected personnel. The returned prisoners said they owed their lives to Red Cross parcels of food and clothing. The saw 3500 Russians die in one camp in less than three months from ill-treatment, hunger and disease.
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Grey River Argus, 14 December 1943, Page 2
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106AUSSIE PRISONERS Grey River Argus, 14 December 1943, Page 2
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