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Antonio Vassalli
Italian Army 77th Infantry Regiment
from:Pradalunga, Bergamo, Italy
Antonio Vassalli was my great-uncle.
In his diary he wrote that he was an Italian war prisoner in Stalag XXB in Marienburg from the 19th of September 1943, until after the armistice of the 3rd of September, between the new government of Italy and the Allies.
He was captured by the Germans when he was trying to return home from the Italian front in France.
He was brought to the POW camp by train from Italy and by the 20th of December 1943 he was moved to an other prisoner of war camp near Wuppertal, 40km from Cologne. His prisoner number was 56281.