Canadian Veteran who filmed German guards with a hidden camera.
Many, years ago, late 1970's, I visited Canada and stayed with a friend of the family in Calgary, Alberta. While there I was introduced to a Canadian WW2 veteran who had been taken prisoner and spent some time in a German run POW camp. The chap was a very keen photographer and if I remember correctly still worked as a professional photographer when I met him. The chap explained, to me, that while in the/a POW camp he had made a "secret camera" that could be hidden inside his shirt with just the lens exposed and he had used it to photograph his German guards. Unfortunately the chap didn't still have the camera to show me but he did show me a magazine article which described his story in detail and which he had written sometime previous to my visit. If I remember his description correctly from 40 years ago, the camera body was round, thin and the camera only took a single exposure at a time but that description is only as good as my memory of 40 years ago.
I do believe that the chap passed away quite a few years ago, or so I understand. Unfortunately, I can't remember the chaps name because it is such a long time since I last met him. He did live in Calgary, Alberta and was not married when I met him and may well have been a bachelor. I think that he was a professional photographer?
I was wondering if any of our Canadian members remember this chap or perhaps someone may have the magazine article that tells his story? Perhaps someone knows more of his story of service/captivity?
Looking on-line, it would seem that he wasn't the only POW to film his German guards with a secret camera.
