The One Who got Away

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MELADY, JOHN. Escape from Canada! the Untold Story of German Pows in Canada, 1939-1945.
Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, (1981).. 210 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photos. "Captured on the battlefields of Europe and Africa, or on the open sea, 25,000 German officers and other ranks were sent to camps across this country, to live out the duration of the war behind barbed wire. Many of these men were the cream of Hitler's fighting troops, and they regarded it as their duty to escape imprisonment and return to Germany to fight again.." The story of these escapers and escape attempts, as well as of murders, riots, etc. that occured in at some of the camps.

Angler POW camp, The Escape that Shocked the Country

During World War II, Canada interred 35,046 Prisoners of War and Japanese-Canadians in 26 main compounds and dozens of smaller camps in Canada. Prisoners worked at lumbering, farming and manufacturing. Lake Superior’s inhospitable and remote shore hosted three large POW compounds at Angler, Neys, and Red Rock. A number of smaller logging POW camps were located in the rough interior along the White and Magpie Rivers. Of the 600 attempted escapes from Canadian POW camps, the largest and the most cunning was masterminded at Angler on Sturdee Cove just west of Peninsula Harbour.

http://www.lynximages.com/POW.htm