Day 7 contd. in the Footsteps of a Polish POW, Geordie Hussar. Our guide at the Bruntal Museum (see previous blog) told of two or three English soldiers who had befriended a Czech worker and secured a map of the area. They had escaped from my dad's work camp E352, Machold's Linen Factory, but no one ever knew if they were successful. Hugh Patterson gives this account: ‘My pal Jimmy took a fancy to the idea of sneaking out, together with someone else, who had someone (a girl) to see. He might have been called Alan, I don’t remember. Anyway, they had a go, but were unlucky or unskillful. They were recaptured and taken to another camp..... ….. It was increasingly rumoured that the Germans were retreating from the Russians, first marching any prisoners further back
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