Barbed-Wire Christmas

The depart company of Wilmington, Delaware, makers of better things for better living through chemistry, presents the Cavalcade of America. Our play is Barbed Wire Christmas, based on the true experiences of G.I.'s in a German prisoner of war camp. Our star, Edmund Dopryan.

A few days before Christmas 1944, the place, an American prisoner of war camp deep in Germany, In a snow-covered compound, the group of American prisoners stand shivering in the icy wind, waiting for morning roll call.

Welcome! When you hear such a wish, you'll come to attention. A message from the commandant. A jeep of Christmas the curfew will be extended to one o'clock. Ignautis is Eve of Christmas only and all as an I says usual any prisoner found outside barracks with a shot. This is the story of that Christmas Eve a Christmas

that I am 4,000 other American enlisted men spent in a German prison camp. We lived in flimsy barracks surrounded by barbed wire and trigger happy German gods, we were forever cold and wet and hungry, and I mean really hungry. My name is Peterson, Sergeant Bert Peterson, as the elected leader of the 150 men of Barak 35B. My main problem

was to keep us all alive until the Allied armies came for us. And now, with another horrible German winter beginning, the only thing that kept us from doing something desperate and The fewer side was our conviction that it wouldn't be too long now.

Most of us kept up our hopes, but some, like a kid from West Virginia named Nick, like to sit around the barrack and worry about it. Hey Pete, how long you think it'll be, huh?