On this day in 1941, the largest escape from a Canadian POW camp occurred. You can read the details, and generally on the camp on other threads on this blog, here:
ANGLER & PRISONERS OF WAR (Chapter 4 of 7)
The Camp was located near Marathon, Ontario and contained German POWs as well as Japanese Canadian internees. The Germans timed their escape to correlate it to Hitler's birthday. At this point in the war, and really up until 1944, German POWs tended to be heavily Nazified.
The Germans took Mount Olympus in Greece, scaling it with the German 6th Mountain Division.
The 6th is a German unit we hear little of, in part because in September 1941 it was deployed to Finland in support of the Finns and serve the rest of the war in Lapland. It surrendered to the British from Norway, into which it had withdrawn at the wars' end.
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