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Old 3rd July 2010, 16:31
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Re: missing informations about Freytag

Bert,
The story about Siegrfried Freytag's experience as a Greek POW is from Eric Mombeeks's book "Luftwaffe A Pictorial History". It is a short paragraph and was the first documentation I had ever seen from Siegfried Freytag. I can send you a scan,it's one page.
Basically I'll quote it:

"On April 24 [1941] I participated in a great operation over Athens . My Emil was hit by AA fire and I had to parachute to safety. Nevertheless, I was wounded and was captured by some Anzacs . I was lying in a hospital when three Greek officers came near my bed. One of them was a medic. They told me that I had to be their prisonerbecause it was a Greek gun which had blown me from the air!...[i] was transferred to a Greek military hospital . It was my luck...[W]hen the first German motorcyclist entered the Greek capital, I saluted them from the hospital balcony."

Carlos
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