Minnesota POWs of the Germans
Below are samples
of Project
interviews that have been conducted with Minnesota service personnel who were
POWs of the Germans during World War Two. Additional interviews are
being scheduled and conducted.
| name of
interviewee, MN home |
military
service; POW dates; primary POW facilities |
Harold Brick
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Lake Henry, MN |
Army
60mm mortar gunner, 275th
Reg, 70th Infantry Division
France, 1944-45; POW in Germany, Jan - Apr 45
Stalag
IX-B, Bad Orb; work camp by Trebnitz |
Russell Gunvalson
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Rochester, MN |
Army
590th Field Artillery, 423rd regiment, 106th Infantry Division
Belgium, 1944; POW in Germany, Dec 44 - Apr 45
Stalag IX-B, Bad Orb; Stalag IX-A,
Ziegenhain |
Paul Peterson
Minneapolis, MN |
Army scout/observer, 106th
Infantry Division
Belgium, 1944; POW in Germany, Dec 44 - Apr 45
Stalags IV-B, Muhlberg; VIII-A, Gorlitz;
XI-B, Fallingbostel |
Charles Woehrle
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Pine City, MN |
Army Air Corps
bombardier, B-17 Flying Fortress, 351st Bomb Group
England, 1943; POW in Germany, May 43 - Apr 45
Stalags Luft III, Sagan; VII-A, Moosburg |
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= complete interview transcript posted
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