“You Can Go for a Walk If You Want” — German POWs Couldn’t Believe Canada’s Camps Had No Fences

Canadians At War • November 6, 2025

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June nineteen forty. Franz Weber stood at the edge of the Canadian prisoner camp and stared at nothing. There was no barbed wire. There were no tall guard towers with machine guns pointing down at him. There were just open fields that stretched out to the horizon. Green grass moved in the wind. Trees lined a road in the distance. A few wooden buildings sat behind him. And that was it.

“You Can Go for a Walk If You Want” — German POWs Couldn’t Believe Canada’s Camps Had No Fences

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