SCHOOL FOR WAR PRISONERS. Stalag VIIIB maintains a school which the C.Q.M.S., who is a headmaster in. civil life, describes as “the only English school in Germany and founded by myself in September, 1941.” There are forty-one tutors, all of whom are qualified. The syllabus, which comprises sixty-three subjects, includes electrical < engineering, diesel-engineering, auto-engineering, accountancy, shorthand, English, mathematics, geography, advertising,' music, German,. French, Spanish, Greek, Latin, anatomy, physiology and first aid. The number of students who attend classes daily is, he says, 987, but the total number of men with whom the school deals is 15,000 to 19,000, “as we are now endeavouring to help those out on working parties.”
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Camp News, Volume 3, Issue 151, 4 December 1942, Page 4
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