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DIETHELM STOBBE

Diethelm Stobbe's daughter Julie also shared the following: "It was whilst my father was in the POW camp that [he] met a fellow prisoner and they struck up a friendship - chatting through the wire fencing, I understand!

They shared the same birthday and unbeknownst to my father this Polish man was secretly fashioning a piece of airplane wing he'd found into a cigarette box. He made it with a stone and sharp nail incredibly! So the man gave my father the box on 'their' birthday!

I keep the box on my coffee table in my father's memory - as you can see with his dog-tags and plenty of hearts,

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