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Flashback: Weidauer with wartime newspaper account of his recapture after he escaped and hid for several weeks on a sheep ranch
Flashback: Weidauer with wartime newspaper account of his recapture after he escaped and hid for several weeks on a sheep ranch

Flashback: Weidauer with wartime newspaper account of his recapture after he escaped and hid for several weeks on a sheep ranch

Date3/11/1981
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Original Toronto Star caption: Flashback: Weidauer with wartime newspaper account of his recapture after he escaped and hid for several weeks on a sheep ranch.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0019125F
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