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April 30, 1945 (Creation)
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A German driving instruction form possibly authorizing personnel to travel by car between the town of Gustrow and the city of Rostock in Germany to pick up their wages in Rostock.
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Donated by the Hill Family in 2019.
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Driving instruction form scanned as TIF file October 2025.
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Between October 1942 and May 1945, Cameron Hill was captured as a prisoner of war by the Axis Powers, held in custody, and sent to POW camps in Libya, Italy, Austria, Prussia, Poland, and Germany.
In the early months of 1945, Cameron Hill was forced to march westward across Germany along with many other Allied prisoners of war during the final stages of the Second World War. On May 2, 1945 Cameron was near the town of Kittlitz when a patrol of vehicles of the British Second Army arrived and liberated the Allied prisoners of war. The remaining German troops surrendered their weapons, equipment, and vehicles. On May 3, 1945, Cameron wrote in his wartime log that he picked up a forfeited German Citroen car to drive around in along with some fellow Allied troops. It is possible that the driving instruction form in this file was found inside the Citroen car that Cameron Hill referred to in his wartime log.
For more information about Cameron Hill's wartime log, please refer to SCA195-GA424-4-24.
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Described by NM in May 2019.
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Information about material in this file was, in part, gathered from the following sources:
Hill, Barbara Jean. From Kitchener to Cairo : One Airman's Story as a WWII Prisoner of War. [Publisher Not Identified], 2017. p. 6, 66-67. Call Number: G24433