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talag IVB (at Mühlberg on what became the border to East Germany) in the latter years of WW2 would not have been a popular destination, with up to 30,000 prisoners of war crammed into freezing and filthy wooden huts teeming with rats and fleas. These camps were often referred to as ‘Death’s Waiting Room’, and such were the atrocious conditions, many

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