Springbok rugby squad at Stalag IV-B in 1944. Back row, left to right: J Oakley, I Van Huyssteen, Kaplan, Timm, G J Coetzee, N Hinds, B Wessels, C F Heydenreich, H B Youngleson, A L Foster, E A Chapman, J V Rall. Middle row: A J Fabricius, M Moore, G Ackermann, Major Ochse (medical officer), B S ‘Fiks’ van der Merwe (captain), D Katzeff, C A Van der Westhuizen, JHB Ritchie, A Hultzer, J Zietsman. Front row: D J Marais, R Hinds, E P Sephton

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IFE in German prisoner of war camps was hard mentally and physically and although escaping and/or survival were the major obsessions, ru...