German POWs in Canada

The fact that some of them spent most of these years on another continent surprises some today. Canada was not only the place of retreat of the British monarchy, but also the place of internment for thousands of German prisoners of war. The author's father, Meinrad Müller, born in 1924 in Bavaria, was one of them. From 1942 to 1946 he was interned in the prisoner-of-war camp No. 132 in Medicine Hat, Alberta. An old black and white photo shows hi…