213722 Robert Cossar My father, Robet Cossar, held for a short time at Stalag 4b I have his German dog tags of Stalag 4B with his German number. He was passing through to Lansdorf Stalag VIIIB, next to Auchwitz where he spent most of his captivity years. He was used as forced labour at the synthetic rubber and petrol plant by IK Farben. The plants were bombed by the Americans during daylight raids by B17 bombers. But they missed and hit the Camp instead, a lot of allied prisoners were killed.
He remembers seeing his first jet plane a German fighter bomber; they thought it was powered by compressed air. They knew what was going on; every night was a visit from a reader who read out the BBC news which was received on a clandestine radio receiver. I saw my dad today and he still remembers it all.
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