Georg Gärtner escaped from a POW camp in Deming, New Mexico on September 21,1945, assumed a new identity, and lived quietly for decades until "surrendering" on the Today Show to Bryant Gumbel in 1985.
Georg Gärtner escaped from a POW camp in Deming, New Mexico on September 21,1945 to avoid returning to his ome region, occupied by the USSR. He assumed a new identity and lived quietly until "surrendering" on the Today Show to Bryant Gumbel in 1985.