The real story of "The Great Escape" ...

[dogtag]

The prisoners at that camp appeared to have had
a cushy time of it compared to the prisoners held
by the Japanese.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-revealed.html

[leftyo]

when it came to rough prison life, the germans dont even come close to what the japs had/did.

[S.A. Boggs]

when it came to rough prison life, the germans dont even come close to what the japs had/did.

What about the Jew's?
Sam

[leftyo]

What about the Jew's?
Sam

ask the chinese

[JB White]

The prisoners at that camp appeared to have had
a cushy time of it compared to the prisoners held
by the Japanese.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-revealed.html

With the new info uncovered, I wouldn't mind seeing a remake of "The Great Escape" done on the order of "Dunkirk". It was a Luftwaffe POW camp and was a cut above most of the others. The old school officers still had some sense of chivalry and respect for fellow aviators.
I recall a story about a Luftwaffe officer putting his neck on the line to get fliers transferred to a Luft camp. They were being held by the SS at Auschwitz .

[dogtag]

The Luftwaffe held a small truce while the RAF delivered
a new set of "Peg Legs" for RAF Pilot Douglas Bader who lost
his when his plane was shot down.

[barretcreek]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAJxpo4lrB4

[togor]

My step-grandfather lost 70 lbs in his 15 months as a POW of the Luftwaffe. Worms in your beans? That's protein.

[m1ashooter]

The only POWs who had good conditions were the ones held in the States and Canada.

[leftyo]

The only POWs who had good conditions were the ones held in the States and Canada.

true

[dryheat]

The Germans held in AZ came back as tourists.

[Major Tom]

I remember as a kid in the 50's there were quite a few former German prisoners who came back to live in our small town. Back then our town was known as "Dutch Town". Population was mostly german and swedes.

[barretcreek]

Saw a coffee table book, pics from 'Life' maybe, of laughing German P.O.W.s being herded on to transports for the journey to North America.

[dogtag]

German POWs in England were farm hands and would
chat in their broken English with the locals over the stone walls.
I'm sure most were glad to be "farm hands"

[dave]

The enemy is obligated to feed and take care of POW's only as much as there own Military. When their own people suffer so do POW's. The USAAF gave all flight crews the rank of sergeant or higher as the Germans respected rank, went the thinking. There is no comparing the Jews to POW's, they were doomed to die from the beginning. POW's should not be made to work in anything that helps the enemy war effort. We worked many, if not most, as farm hands which can be argued helped our war effort. But it helped keep the POW's fed, so no one complained. The Japanese never signed the Geneva accords and did not follow them. Their warrior code say's to surrender is cowardly and cowards deserve no consideration. Similar thinking is common among oriental peoples.
A friend in our 'coffee' group is a 32 year Navy guy, Doctor, Served during Nam, Korea. His ship was in port in Nam while the French were still there. They were all Foreign Legion guys, many ex-German soldiers. He meet one who was a US POW. Asked where he was held and it turns out it was the town 'Doc' was from, here in MI. Doc said they used to jeer the prisoners as they went to the fields every day, he told the guy he was one of them! Small world sometimes!