Product Description

WW2 prisoner of war postcard in good but aged condition. The postcard has the ink stamp for Gepeuft stalag XVIIIA with no other detail other than a four digit number which is repeated. The camp was first used in 1939 for Polish and Russian prisoners, prisoners from the British and Commonwealth army were in the camp from November 1943 until the camp was liberated by elements of the British 8th Army on 11 May 1945, the camp Kommondant had already given control pf the camp to a British medical officer on the 8th May 1945.