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Title	Church Services
Image Rights	Digital image © 2008, Tennessee State Library & Archives. All rights reserved.
Copyright	While TSLA houses an item, it does not necessarily hold the copyright on the item, nor may it be able to determine if the item is still protected under current copyright law. Users are solely responsible for determining the existence of such instances and for obtaining any other permissions and paying associated fees that may be necessary for the intended use.
Subjects - TGM	Programs Holidays Religious services
Subjects - LCSH	World War, 1939-1945 -- Europe; Prisoners of war; Diaries
Description	This is another page of the Christmas program that was given to the POWs at Stalag Luft III in 1944. It includes a dedication page that reads, "The Senior American Officer extends very cordial season's greetings to all officers and men under his command" and is signed Da[rr] H. Alki[ns]. The program includes Christmas Eve and Christmas Day church services (Protestant and Roman Catholic) on which Mitchener has written"Our Entertainment - Yultide" at the top of the leaf.
Place	Zagan (Poland)
Date	1944-1945
Historical note	Mitchener was shot down and captured as a POW after a bombing mission in Germany and sent to Stalag Luft III in Sagan, Germany, now a part of Poland. Christmas Day in 1944 at Stalag Luft III was cold but clear. The men were given Red Cross parcels with canned turkey, cookies, and plum pudding. The Germans gave them party hats and noisemakers, but the atmosphere was still grim. The Western troops were stalled along the Siegfried Line, and the men feared that they would be prisoners indefinitely.
Creator	Mitchener, Hardy A., 1919-1957
Collection name	Hardy A. Mitchener, Jr. Journal, 1944-1945
Accession #	THS 760
Owning Institution	Tennessee Historical Society
ID #	33609
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Digital type	IMAGE
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