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Escaped German internee recaptured near Burlington, Within a few hours after he disappeared from a work party at an interment camp west of Toronto, Al(...)
Escaped German internee recaptured near Burlington, Within a few hours after he disappeared from a work party at an interment camp west of Toronto, Al(...)

Escaped German internee recaptured near Burlington, Within a few hours after he disappeared from a work party at an interment camp west of Toronto, Al(...)

Date9/17/1940
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Original Toronto Star caption: Escaped German internee recaptured near Burlington; Within a few hours after he disappeared from a work party at an interment camp west of Toronto; Alexander Berchardt Siegle; German civilian internee; was recaptured by Chief Constable Lee Smith of Burlington; today.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0019243F
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Between 1939 and 1945
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Germans are reminded of their barbarous cruelty in this sign-one of two which mark site of now-destroyed Belsen horror camp. The other is written in German
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Russian slave laborer here points out a former German guard, right, who beat prisoners in the Nazi camp
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