Great Escape Forger
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Great Escape Forger

The Work of Carl Holmstrom ā€“ POW#221. An Artist in Stalag Luft III

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Great Escape Forger

The Work of Carl Holmstrom ā€“ POW#221. An Artist in Stalag Luft III

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Carl Holmstrom's superb artwork depicts life as a 'kriegie' in a unique manner. But, more than that, he spent the major part of his captivity in Stalag Luft III Prisoner of War Camp, famous for 'The Great Escape'. The audacity of the 76 escapees was only matched by the callousness of the Nazis who murdered 50 after recapture. As well as skillfully recording camp life, Carl forged invaluable official documents. He also sketched his fellow prisoners and encouraged others to take up drawing as hobby. Remarkably he saved over 200 examples of his work by carrying them on the appallingly arduous 1945 winter march from Poland into Germany. Post war, Carl Holmstrom said, "The drawings were made during imprisonment and represent a sincere effort to portray to the American people and especially to the relatives of the prisoners, intimate glimpses of Kriegie life."His words proved to be prophetic. An expansion of his earlier self-published Kriegie Life, this superb book honors Carl's exceptional artistic gift. This book has strong claim to contain the finest collection of POW art to emerge from Nazi-occupied Europe.

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Publisher
Pen and Sword Military
Year
2022
ISBN
9781526767998
Topic
Storia
Subtopic
Seconda guerra mondiale

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction: ā€˜For You the War is Overā€™
  9. Foreword: ā€˜The Life of a Kriegieā€™
  10. Sketches of Oflag XXI-B
  11. Sketches of the ā€˜Great Escape Campā€™: Stalag Luft III
  12. Daily Life of Stalag Luft III
  13. Cleaning Clothing and Barracks
  14. A Kriegieā€™s Private Time
  15. Sketches of Workers and Guards at Stalag Luft III
  16. The Infamous 52-Mile Forced Evacuation March
  17. Moosburg and Liberation
  18. Life after Liberation
  19. Assorted Colour Drawings
  20. Portraits of PoWs
  21. Portraits of the Staff
  22. Glossary