Facts & Guesses

Facts & Guesses

1.) There was a POW camp at Prenzlau - Oflag II-A. It was liberated by the Red Army on 12 April 1945. All the prisoners at that time were Belgian.

source: http://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/european-camps-british--commonwealth-prisoners-of-war-1939-45

Guess: Could Harry have been in Prenzlau to help with repatriation of the prisoners?

2.) From March to May 1946 the Judge Advocate General's Office of the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) held a War Crimes investigation into the killing of Allied officers at Prenzlau. Documents are in The National Archives: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C172605