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When Springboks did the sweep against best of rest in the Stalag

On remembrance Sunday, BRENDAN GALLAGHER tells how rugby helped steel the mind in the Stalag 1VB POW camp

HOW to stay sane in a German Prisoner of War camp for three or four years? For those who relished the simple freedoms and who were pathologically allergic to confinement, that prospect was possibly more scary and intimidating than fighting in the white heat of battle.
The claustrophobia, the rubbish food, the slow steady decline in your physical and mental state, the uncertainty, the lack of purpose. For most just getting through their incarceration with body and soul intact was a massi...

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