Description

• Title:
  En ensom norsk grav i Poznań
• Creator:
  Lange, Tadeusz Wojciech
• Description:
  The article is an account of the life and death of Halldor Espelid, a young Norwegian RAF pilot born in Bergen, trained at “Little Norway” in Canada, shot down over occupied France, put in the POW camp for airmen in Sagan (now Żagań in Poland), arrested near Flensburg while taking part in the so-called Great Escape, and murdered at the age of 24 by the Kiel Gestapo. His body was cremated, his ashes buried at Sagan and later moved to the Old Garrison Cemetery in Poznań, Poland, together with the remains of 47 other participants of the famous Great Escape murdered at Hitler’s personal order.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Date:
  2015.11.20
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Articles
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia; Vol. 17 (2015); 48-55;
  Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia; Tom 17 (2015); 48-55;
  2299-6885;
  1230-4786
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/fsp/article/view/3920/3970
• Subject:
  Halldor Espelid;
  andre verdenskrig;
  Sagan krigsfangeleir;
  Den store flukten;
  Hærens flygevåpen;
  331 skvadron;
  World War II;
  Sagan P.O.W. camp;
  the Great Escape;
  Royal Norwegian Air Force;
  331 Squadron
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/fsp/article/view/3920
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text