From Commandant to Captive: The Memoirs of Stalag Luft III Commandant Col. Friedrich Wilhelm von Lindeiner genannt von Wildau With Postwar Intervi (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781483425399)

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 G rlitz train station hoping to return to Sagan, Germany, to fight the approaching Russians. The distance from G rlitz 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.

Author: Marilyn Walton, Michael Eberhardt
ISBN-10: 1483425398
ISBN-13: 9781483425399
Publisher: Lulu Publishing Services
Language: English
Published: 03/13/2015
Pages: 394
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d