Code: 10677
POW, Stalag VI/J, Krefeld, camp prisoner made cup.
Drinking cup made from a Red Cross food parcel tin.
Size, 80 x 75mm.
This cup was found at the site of the camp, and kept in the a garden shed with a some others until discovered in the late 1980's.
The Krefeld camp was used between 1939 until late 1944 when it moved to Dorsten due to the allied advance. Several tens of thousand pow's were kept there and formed into work parties. Mainly French, Polish and some RAF 49 squadron aircrew were imprisoned here.
The last photo shows the camp main gates in March 1945, now occupied by the US 2nd armored division.
In a very goood condition, with surface rust and part of the tin's original plating is still visible.
