Our guides on the balcony where Adolf Hitler stood to address Freudenthal.

A May Tree Marks the POW camp. Emmerich Machold the Bruntal Schindler?

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May 14th 2018
Day 7 in the Footsteps of a Polish POW Geordie Hussar, Bruntal Today is the day where we truly walk in my Dad's footsteps. As we arrived in Bruntal, mid morning, we crossed the railway line, a marker for the Emmerich Machold Linen Factory where my dad was a POW working in camp E352. (He calls it 22a in his memoir but, this doesn't tally with other documentation). His photo clearly sh ... read more

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Following the First World War, the closely related Czechs and Slovaks of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire merged to form Czechoslovakia. During the interwar years, the new country's leaders were frequently preoccupied with meeting the demands of ot... ... read more