Kriegie Kronikle: Thanksgiving Issue

Seventy years ago, on 30 November 1944, the “Kriegies”– short for Kriegsgefangener, German for POW– in Stalag Luft IV celebrated Thanksgiving. They used the traditional date of the 30th of November (for more on this see the previous post on “Franksgiving”). Naturally, this issue of Kriegie Kronikle spotlighted the work of the “Chow Chuckers,” the men who “perform the tasks which are inevitable & necessary in unpacking, sorting, repacking & loading of the chow we all idolize (the word is a masterpiece of understatement!).”

Gift of the Family of Willard Charles Miller, 2012.388

For more on the Kriegie Kronikle from Stalag Luft IV, see this previous post.

Post by Curator Kimberly Guise.