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	Coast Guard, U.S. Title Coast Guard, U.S. Author U.S. Coast Guard Photo ID 2009.01.05, C2-DA Photo Description Two of 28 German prisoners captured in Greenland - crewman of a German trawler scuttled by Germans. Circa 1944. Caption on back of photo: " The jig is up, Fritz - Coast Guard foils German weather base attempt. Two of 28 Nazi prisoners, their hands raised in surrender, are taken aboard a coast guard combat cutter off the northeast coast of Greenland. Sixteen of the prisoners were crewman of a trawler which the Nazis scuttled when they were being overhauled by a Coast Guard fighting ship. The other 12 were members of a weather observation staff, which Hitler had sent to Greenland to provide meteorological data vital to German's defense." Custodial History AINA: Baltimore, Maryland; Montréal, Québec; Calgary, Alberta Institution Arctic Institute of North America Collection Arctic Institute of North America Photo Collection Type image Language eng Rights http://digitization.ucalgary.ca/index.php/Conditions_of_Use
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