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November 6, 1943 outside of Naples, Italy.  Twenty-one-year-old German Gefreiter Kurt Pechmann surrendered to the British 8th Army. The War was over for him, but his life’s adventure was just beginning.             Kurt was born in Silesia in what is now Poland.  His father was a stonemason and after the equivalent of 8th grade,  heContinue reading “Kurt G. Pechmann, POW”