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POWs peeling swedes
POWs divide up the swede peelings from the German mess at Stalag 357, Fallingbostel. Each man represents a barrack of eighty prisoners and stands in front of the cardboard boxes into which their share is put.
Alexander Turnbull Library,
War History Collection
Reference: DA-10784
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