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Memoirs of a Prisoner of War

By Erhard Dallmann and Edward J. Patton - October 15, 1998

After 42 years, a soldier from the German Army remembers days of his youth as a German POW in Western New York.

The full content is available in the Fall 1998 Issue.

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