April 1945  Stalag VIIA (officially Stammlager VIIA), a prisoner of war camp in Bavaria twenty-two miles northeast of Munich 
and a half-mile north of Moosburg, Germany. In a sprawling set of tightly spaced rows of drab, rundown, one-story military 
barracks built to accommodate 10,000 persons, the Germans had crowded together 110,000 prisoners of war: British, Americans, 
military personnel of every Allied  nationality (including 40,000 Russians), Indians, Australians, South Africans, Asians
and South Americans.