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American Pvt. Joe Demler, photographed on the day that the notorious prison camp, Stalag 12-A in Limburg, Germany, was liberated by Allied troops, spring 1945. history

The POW Who Lived: Joe Demler, WWII’s ‘Human Skeleton’

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