Twenty-seven Years A Russian Prisoner
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- Material Type
- Photograph
- Date Range
- Oct.12, 1971
- Description Level
- Item
- Accession No.
- 1991107618873
- Physical Description
- Black and white negative
- Scope and Content
- In November, 1944 William Hass was captured in East Germany by the then Allied Russian Army. In October 1971 he boarded a jet aircraft in Moscow and flew past the iron current—forever William Hass was reunited in Lethbridge with his wife, three daughters and a son. Hass was a Russian prisoner of wa…
- Material Type
- Photograph
- Date Range
- Oct.12, 1971
- Description Level
- Item
- Creator
- The Lethbridge Herald
- Physical Description
- Black and white negative
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Scope and Content
- In November, 1944 William Hass was captured in East Germany by the then Allied Russian Army. In October 1971 he boarded a jet aircraft in Moscow and flew past the iron current—forever William Hass was reunited in Lethbridge with his wife, three daughters and a son. Hass was a Russian prisoner of war in East Germany until 1955 when he was transported to a community near Moscow. [The complete story is in the Lethbridge Herald, Oct. 13, 1971]
- Access Restrictions
- Public Access
- Accession No.
- 1991107618873
- Collection
- Archive
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