The shapeless ghosts leave camp: Stalag Luft III

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ART34781.027
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Place Europe: Germany
Accession Number ART34781.027
Collection type Art
Measurement sheet: 28.8 x 39; image: 19.8 x 29 cm (irreg.)
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pen and ink, brush and ink wash on paper
Location Main Bld: World War 2 Gallery: Gallery 4: D-Day VE
Maker Comber, Albert
Place made United Kingdom: England, Greater London, London, United Kingdom: England, Shropshire
Date made January 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Description

Prisoners of war on the long winter march from the prisoner of war camp at Stalag Luft III (Stammlager Luftwasse III) in Sagan (Sagan bei Breslau), Germany (now part of Poland) where they were held from September 1943 to January 1945, to a crowded prisoner of war camp at Tarmstedt bei Bremen.

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