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Originally Posted by troutman
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That's a little bit different than the situation I was describing. Colditz Castle was a POW camp where Allied officers who had previously tried to escape from other camps were imprisoned. For the most part, the German guards abided by the Geneva Convention and treated the POWs relatively well*. Playing on the German side in that scenario is not the same as playing a guard at a Nazi death camp like Auschwitz.
To put it in movie terms, it's the difference between "The Great Escape" and "Schindler's List". I could play a game as a German soldier in the former, but not the latter.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oflag_IV-C
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In Colditz, the Wehrmacht followed the Geneva Convention. Would-be escapees were punished with solitary confinement, instead of being summarily executed. In principle, the security officers recognized that it was the duty of the POWs to try to escape and that their own job was to stop them. Prisoners could even form gentlemen's agreements with the guards, such as not using borrowed tools for escape attempts.
Most of the guard company was composed of WWI veterans and young soldiers not fit for the front. Because Colditz was a high security camp, the Germans organized three and then later four Appells (roll calls) a day to count the prisoners. If they discovered someone had escaped, they alerted every police and train station within a 40 km (25 mi) radius, and many local members of the Hitler Youth would help to recapture any escapees.
Because of the number of Red Cross food parcels, prisoners sometimes ate better than their guards, who had to rely on Wehrmacht rations.
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