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| Jan 20, 2022 at 14:50 | history | edited | Ne Mo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 11, 2022 at 9:01 | comment | added | GremlinWranger | @nuggethead If you are interested in how some of the oddities of the era came to be it may also be worth looking for Colditz: The German Story by Reinhold Eggers and/or some of his co-authoured books. Eggers was a German officer, and even his version of Allied POW life is not pleasant. Be aware some events in the book are contested, but does provide insight into decision making and practicalities of the POW system. | |
| Jan 10, 2022 at 17:08 | comment | added | nuggethead | Interesting I may try that. Brickhill definitely protrays the experience there as quite livable, between the easily-bribed guards and the many descriptions of them forming friendships with them. But maybe my perspective on what counts as "liveable" is biased after reading Gulag Archipelago last year... | |
| Jan 10, 2022 at 16:53 | comment | added | Mark Johnson | @nuggethead Reading the original 1946 book Escape to Danger (which differed from the later 1950 The Great Escape version, where some of the less heroic aspects of the story were eliminated) may give you a better insight of what the author experienced at the Stalag Luft III POW camp. The Great Escape (book) | |
| Jan 10, 2022 at 14:05 | comment | added | nuggethead | Yes, I have read the whole book. I was surprised to learn that while the book chronicles the attempt of 200 men to escape, there were 10,000 there who did not try it. | |
| Jan 10, 2022 at 13:46 | history | answered | Ne Mo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |