Two murders of POW by fellow prisoners occurred in the Medicine Hat camp. 5 POW were tried
in civilian court in Medicine Hat and later hanged in Lethbridge provincial jail in 1946.
The five were originally buried in the jail's courtyard however in 1971 all 137 POW were
disinterred and removed to Woodlawn cemetery in Kitchener, Ontario at the request of the
German War Graves authority. Here, they were buried two to a grave. Both Perzonowsky and
Werner Schwalb were hanged in Lethbridge for the Medicine Hat murders. Photo credit - D.
Carter.
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