Download or read book Stalag 17B written by Richard H. Hoffman Lt. Col. USAF and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2000-06-07 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true account of a shoot-down, capture, imprisonment and liberation. The author was in Germany's Stalag 17B, force- marched across Austria, and had a horrifying brush with the holocaust. Patton's troops liberated him and returned him to front line duty. He helped capture many enemy troops before war's end.