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TIL About Georg Gärtner a member of the Afrika Korps who escaped from his POW camp in the US in September 1945 rather than being repatriated to an area of Germany under Russian control. Living under an assumed identity Gärtner lived in the US before "surrendering" in the 1980s.

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