Did your father apply for British nationality after 1948? If yes, you may try the British immigration services. Also I supposed he applied for retirment benifits and must have filled in an application file at the Bundes pension offices. If you need the address I can ask one of my friends whose father was German and who applied for this. If he did he may have filled in a curicilum with his service years. Also it would be interesting to find out where the British troops were stationed around the Gothic line and the Balkans in December 1943. By finding out about the front line we"ll have a better idea. It doubt the Balkans here would mean Tito's yougoslavia. Besides I'm not sure they would have handed their pows to the British. I believe one key would be to find the British positions. As to the Germans, I will focuss on the Geignano area first.

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