Object details

Category
Private papers
Related period
Interwar (content), Second World War (content)
Creator
Skinner, Ron
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whole: 1 file

Catalogue number
Documents.21854

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© IWM (HU 20951) Three French POWs smile for the camera as they hold up their special Christmas food at Stalag Luft III, Sagan, 25 December 1942.
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