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On July 3, 1940, 5,000 exhausted and hungry French officers reached a high plateau of the Moravian Mountain range in Austria. Prisoners of war of the Third Reich, they had arrived at Oflag XVIIA, a quad of grim looking barracks encircled by barbed wire, their new home for the next five years.
Determined to maintain their dignity and show their "fierce will" to resist, they immediately organized and within a year created a dynamic community, complete with a university, library, newspaper, theater, orchestra and sport teams. More than 20 clandestine radios connected them with the outside world. In 1943, they executed the largest Allied POW escape of the war with 132 escapees, twice as many as the famed "Great Escape" from Colditz. Seventy years after their liberation, this translation with commentary of two officers' diaries reveals a never before told story of struggle and triumph.
Contents
Table of Contents
Foreword by John B. Romeiser
Preface by Jacqueline Vautrain Collins
1. Called to Serve Their Country (1 September 1939-17 June 1940)
2. Capture (17 June-1 July 1940)
3. Betrayal and Humiliation (22 June-3 July 1940)
4. Defiance (4-20 July 1940)
5. Settling In (21 July-15 November 1940)
6. Eight Months in Nuremberg (September 1940-May 1941)
7. Creating a Town Behind Barbed Wire (16 November 1940-20 May 1941)
8. La Semaine de France (the French Week) (25 May-September 1941)
9. Barbed Wire Blues (October 1941-May 1942)
10. Reaching Mid-Point (June-December 1942)
11. The Great Adventure (January-14 October 1943)
12. Wait: The Leitmotiv of the Prisoner (Late October, 1943-15 April 1945)
13. Trekking Eighty Miles to Freedom (16 April-11 May/19 June 1945)
Epilogue by Jacqueline Vautrain Collins
Background
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
