After the capitulation of the Warsaw Uprising on 2 October 1944, nearly 12,000 AK soldiers were taken to camps. Officers were placed in the officers’ camps like the one in Murnau, Bavaria, where Cavalry Captain Witold Pilecki was detained.
Prisoners of war could correspond with their families writing on special letter forms or on postcards, only in indelible pencil. The correspondence was checked by censors.
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