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Corporal Rogers F Renusch Purple Heart
US Army Field Artillery
My brother Rogers F. Renusch, was captured on or around December 12th, 1944 and sent to Stalag 9, camp 017 at Ziegenhein Hessen-Nassau by railroad car. He said that on Christmas Eve while the POWs were crowded in the rail car that they began to sing "Silent Night" and the German soldiers outside the car began to sing along. He said for those few moments there were no enemies. He was a Corporal with the United States Army, Field Artillery and received the Purple Heart.