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<blockquote data-quote="emilioteles" data-source="post: 1783938" data-attributes="member: 3144"><img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xta1/t31.0-8/11148491_698407013622427_4835949867823785383_o.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> 'Stalag 13-C'US troops from Combat Command B of the U.S. 14th Armored Division entering the Hammelburg Prison in Germany by opening the main gate with bursts of their M3 &quot;Grease Guns&quot;. Hammelburg, Germany. April 6, 1945.Hammelburg was a large German Army training camp, set up in 1893. Part of this camp had been used as a POW camp for Allied army personnel in World War I. After 1935 it was a training camp and military training area for the newly reconstituted German Army.In May 1940 the camp was established in wooden huts at the south end of the training ground. The first prisoners included Belgian, Dutch and French soldiers taken during the Battle of France. In May–June 1941 Yugoslavian, predominantly Serbian prisoners arrived from the Balkans Campaign, and soon after in June–July 1941 Australian and other British Commonwealth soldiers arrived, captured during the Battle of Crete.American soldiers that had been captured during the Battle of Normandy arrived in June–July 1944, and more from the Battle of the Bulge in January 1945. In March 1945 a large group of prisoners arrived in deplorable condition after marching the 500 miles from Stalag 13-D in severe winter conditions.&quot;It seems the opening of the gates with machine gun fire is most likely symbolic and a show for the camera's.There are other photos of this POW liberation that show Sherman tanks rolling easily through the fences - which is far safer IMO than the method used in photo.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="emilioteles, post: 1783938, member: 3144"] [IMG]https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xta1/t31.0-8/11148491_698407013622427_4835949867823785383_o.jpg[/IMG] 'Stalag 13-C' US troops from Combat Command B of the U.S. 14th Armored Division entering the Hammelburg Prison in Germany by opening the main gate with bursts of their M3 "Grease Guns". Hammelburg, Germany. April 6, 1945. Hammelburg was a large German Army training camp, set up in 1893. Part of this camp had been used as a POW camp for Allied army personnel in World War I. After 1935 it was a training camp and military training area for the newly reconstituted German Army. In May 1940 the camp was established in wooden huts at the south end of the training ground. The first prisoners included Belgian, Dutch and French soldiers taken during the Battle of France. In May–June 1941 Yugoslavian, predominantly Serbian prisoners arrived from the Balkans Campaign, and soon after in June–July 1941 Australian and other British Commonwealth soldiers arrived, captured during the Battle of Crete. American soldiers that had been captured during the Battle of Normandy arrived in June–July 1944, and more from the Battle of the Bulge in January 1945. In March 1945 a large group of prisoners arrived in deplorable condition after marching the 500 miles from Stalag 13-D in severe winter conditions. "It seems the opening of the gates with machine gun fire is most likely symbolic and a show for the camera's. There are other photos of this POW liberation that show Sherman tanks rolling easily through the fences - which is far safer IMO than the method used in photo." [/QUOTE]

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