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World War 2 Two II WW2 WWII 1939 1945

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Daniele Barrera

Italian Army 265 Infantry Reg.

Taken prisoner on the island of Crete, in October 1943 with the entire regiment, transported by sea to Athens (Piraeus) and then launched into Germany with the military led by Grecia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria, Germania up to 6C of Stalag Bathorn (Meppen). The trip is lasting a month, because the rail lines had been bombed and some of the days you were still on track and secondary is done on rail cars discovered wagons that were normally used for carrying coal. We were 60 per wagon, pressed like sardines, and it was impossible to lie down on the floor for lack of space. The rations consisted of 2 (TWO) loaves of black bread a kilo each for 60 (sixty) people per day, and some of Gavetta brodaglia when it was possible.

From Stalag 6C were to take the middle class to bring to work in the countryside nearby, we were at the end of November 1943 and in those bleak years it was very cold, too, because we had just left our military uniforms without Pastro that was removed. Towards Christmas to all in 1943 we were part of the mandates in Paderborn in a locomotive factory and in the evening we brought the train in a camp nearby. After a month or so Paderborn was bombed and the factory was almost transported destroyed.NOI came to Osnabrück in AUTOWERCKSTADREPARATUR that was bombed in 1944 and transported to distrutta. Fummo MELLE and precisely where it was WELLINGHOLZHAUSEN workshop that had been destroyed in Osnabrück finally came and freed by the Allies in April 1945.

In these two years we have suffered cold, hunger, ill-treatment varied humiliations that is impossible to forget.






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