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The point I was trying to make, was that the wear or possession of "Ski-Caps" was declared illegal in this postwar zone by the Allied Military Authorities, and that these were all to be handed over by order. Beat that for oppression.

How a German prisoner of war escaped in the USA and lived for nearly forty years undetected. He was hunted down like a murderer or common criminal and the FBI never gave up, and he received the personal attention of Hoover, who wanted the last escapée rounded up at all costs. Georg Gärtner from Schweidnitz (Schlesien), who had been an officer cadet and served in North Africa, took on a completely new identity. This left a strong physical and mental strain on him in the latter years, till he finally broke his secret to his American wife. He had escaped as he feared being released into the Soviet Zone, as prisoners were being repatriated to their place of origin, his then being under "Polish Administration" since 1945.