From Commandant to Captive

Download or read book From Commandant to Captive written by Marilyn Walton and published by Lulu Publishing Services. This book was released on 2015-03-13 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 6:30 a.m. on 27 January 1945, Col. Friedrich von Lindeiner, the court martialed and exiled "gentleman" ex-Commandant of Stalag Luft III, sat in the waiting room of the Gorlitz train station hoping to return to Sagan, Germany, to fight the approaching Russians. The distance from Gorlitz to Sagan was 28.5 miles. He arrived fifteen hours later as 10,000 Allied prisoners of war were evacuating his former camp. Like them, he would soon view the war from both inside and outside the barbed wire. Later, as a prisoner of war, he was held by the British for two years before returning to a devastated and divided Germany."