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Originally Posted by ken0042
One interesting thing mentioned in an episode today; once German officers started establishing a presence in the Allied POW camps in North America, they made sure that through the chain of command they made life tough for the soldiers underneath them. Part of the reason for this was to get the word out to soldiers still fighting that being a POW was no picnic.
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I found this point very interesting from a personal point of view. One of my great-grandfathers was conscripted into the German army during WWII, and was ultimately captured by the allies. He ended up in a POW camp in Louisianna, where he was treated so well by the Americans that he decided that when he was free he was going to move his family from Germany to North America. I guess this tactic failed for him at least.