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Compilation of news clips from WTAG Radio Station, an NBC affiliate, during the Second World War. To listen to the clips, click on the playbar below (5:31).

Albert Ashton, born in Clinton MA and raised in Southbridge MA. He was drafted into World War II and served with the US Army in France as a guard over Nazi prisoners of war. Also in this archive are items that were given to him by prisoners, and a…

These items were retained by Albert Ashton, who served with the US Army as a prison guard in a Nazi POW camp in France. He was in charge of a "cage" of a hundred German prisoners. The camps were named according to American brands of cigarettes (Lucky…

This letter is from Herbert Hansen, a former German Nazi soldier, to Albert Ashton, a resident of Worcester. During the Second World War, Ashton had been stationed as a prison guard in France, in charge of a camp of Nazi POWs. Hansen had been a…