Hand drawn WW2 Prisoners' Magazine now online

[agricola]

Dunno if anyone saw this news story earlier:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/8233764.stm

Fascinating, though sad that they never got around to finishing the Cardiff article.

 

[editor]

They were behind barbed wire in cramped wooden huts hundreds of miles from home during World War II.

But some Welsh prisoners of war overcame adversity with a remarkable series of morale-boosting magazines about their homeland called Cymro (Welshman).

They stole medicine to make ink, while their meagre rations were used to stick illustrations onto pages from school exercise books.

It featured snippets of news from home taken from letters sent by loved ones, and was handwritten in English and Welsh from inside Stalag IVb, near Mühlberg in Germany, between July 1943 and December 1944.

That's pretty amazing.

 

[DotCommunist]

Reminds me of Wipers Times
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipers_Times

 

[ddraig]

that is truly amazing and 40 odd pages too
hats off big style

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

and lovely easy-to-read writing as well

 

[jæd]

Did they have a readers Letters Section like they do in the London Paper...? Usually some local Nazi going on about immigrants and Jews and everything...

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

but in the far distant past, when men were men, and women were pieces of furniture

 

[ddraig]

Did they have a readers Letters Section like they do in the London Paper...? Usually some local Nazi going on about immigrants and Jews and everything...

how thick a troll are you?

do one

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

The Finances page is interesting, but sad

Brittany is also interesting