KM POW photos

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KM POW photo Berlin 1945

[Tychsen]

Donitz had no right to send them there.

[Peiper]

Here's another Berlin POW pic, courtesy of the Bundesarchiv.

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Peiper

[Franz repper]

Here's another Berlin POW pic, courtesy of the Bundesarchiv.



Peiper

Herr Peiper This Guy is not Kriegsmarine

[Peiper]

Thanks for that Franz
Most of the men on this pic aren't KM either ???
I thought i would add a relevent Berlin 45 POW pic.

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Cheers now, Peiper.

[Franz repper]

Thanks for that Franz
Most of the men on this pic aren't KM either ???
I thought i would add a relevent Berlin 45 POW pic.

http://www.panzergrenadier.net/forum/download/file.php?id=5312

Cheers now, Peiper.

Shock, Horror , I didnt know that ! As the topic was KM Berlin I was thinking that the point of the post was about the KM POWs in Berlin that beaing the reason it was posted here

and a link to the site http://ahoy.tk-jk.net/Letters/Kormoronf ... byPOW.html might intrest you Cam ?

[Peiper]

Sorry for joining in the discussion ?????

[Crazy Feldgendarme]

Quit it gents if you would be so kind.

Thank you

Dave

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and a link to the site http://ahoy.tk-jk.net/Letters/Kormoronf ... byPOW.html might intrest you Cam ?

Yes Franz, that would likely be a photo taken at No 13 POW Group at Dhurringile (near Murchison in Victoria). I have a keen interest in the Kormoron / HMAS Sydney encounter. Its hard to comprehend what the loss of the Sydney was to the RAN in WW2, until you see that more men were lost in this one engagement, than Australia lost in the whole Vietnam war 1962 - 1972. Thought these might be of interest:

The Prisoner of War Service and Casualty Form for Captain Detmers, the form notes his escape from Dhurringile in January 1945 and recapture and punishment. Later the same year he was twice admitted to hospital after suffering a stroke. NAA: MP1103/1, 47

An image of the Officers of the Kormoran (Captain Theodor Detmers is second from the right - front row)

A report on the interrogation of the Kormoran's crew, 11 December 1941.

[Tychsen]

Cam , there is a good article in the current issue of After The Battle on the subject of Axis POW's in Australia.

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Hi JS Yes thats a good article in ATB. My father and I are attending a literary function with David Mearns (who found the Kormoran / Sydney) later this month.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mearns

I hope to be able to have a few words with him and shake his hand. I also hope he can also locate the Centaur hospital ship as well and bring some dignity to the victims of that atrocity

http://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/centaur/index.asp

[Peiper]

Greetings gents.

Unfortunately i can only find one Berlin 1945 Kreigsmarine POW pic,
courtsey of the Bundesarchiv.

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Peiper

[Franz repper]

Cam , there is a good article in the current issue of After The Battle on the subject of Axis POW's in Australia.

Yes thats a good read sadly left my copy in the UK
KM Guy asking to be picked up by a US ship

this photo came from the great site http://www.uboatarchive.net/index.html

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Shortly after dawn on 27 November, 1941, German survivors from HSK Kormoran transfer from their swamped lifeboat to merchant vessel Centaur's P-4 lifeboat. The Centaur was not prepared to let the men board without armed guards on board and towed them to Carnarvon.

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German POW"S in camp in Australia in WW2. Heinz Kostka ex Rames is sitting second from the right, and Willy Pona ex Kormoran is sitting third from the right.

http://ahoy.tk-jk.net/macslog/BlockadeRunner.html