228869 Vicek United States Army My father was a POW and kept a diary/journal. He moved from Oflag 64 to Oflag 3a. He left Oflag 64 for Germany on 21 January 1945. He said that as the Russians came the treatment and conditions got worse. He had volunteered for guard duty and he and a friend walked out early one morning back to the US lines. In his diary he describes how they walked out of a hole in the fence - he, Ross and 12 others - they met a Norwegian with a map and followed railroad tracks west. They went through Juterburg, rested at Seehausen, targetted heading for Wittenburg. They got a pass from a Russian officer to cross the Elbe at Wittenburg and they traded cigarettes for a bike.
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