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From: geoffm@EBay.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
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Subject: Re: Hartmann
Message-ID: <1990Dec28.032034.3188@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 28 Dec 90 03:20:34 GMT
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From: geoffm@EBay.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)


In article <1990Dec22.034227.24300@cbnews.att.com> nzt1939@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil (William M. Aldo) writes:

>Hartmann surrendered himself and his unit
>to the Americans at the end of the war, not knowing that the Allies
>had an 'arrangement' that Germans fighting on the Eastern Front would
>be turned over to the Soviets regardless of who they surrendered to.
>He spent the next 10-12 years in Soviet prisons/labor camps for vari-
>ous charges -- from killing Soviet civilians to disrupting Soviet 
>industrial economy. 

According to the Time-Life book on fighter pilots (_Fighting Aces_?),
Hartmann was imprisoned in the Soviet Union for twenty years; he was
released in 1965 or '66.


Geoff


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