World War II: Prisoners of War - Full Documentary

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During World War II, captured service personnel of the axis and allied forces found themselves incarcerated as prisoners of war.
This fascinating documentary outlines the treatment and personal experiences of the many millions that were taken captive during the conflict.
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[@noracarnahan6847]

My father was captured at the Battle of the Bulge. He was a prisoner at Bad Orb prison camp from December till April. He would not speak of it ever and never celebrated Christmas for the rest of his life! He was the oldest of 15 children and 4 of his brothers were in the service at the same time. I am proud to have him as my father!!!

[@charleswheeler3689]

Stalag XI-B was at bad Orb. A Camp for US/UK enlisted men.

[@Britton_Thompson]

It's a minor miracle he made it back home at all. As the war turned against Germany and they ran out of men, they started sending the longtime SS guards who patrolled the POW camps to the front lines to fight, and replaced the openings they left behind at the camps with untrained civilians whose only qualifications were that they were fanatical Nazis. These civilian replacements in POW camps during the last months of the war were most torturous and deadly towards Americans because it was US bombers who'd been relentlessly pulverizing Germany's infrastructure and civilian population with around the clock carpet bombings for the past 2 years. It was so bad that by 1945, there was a saying amongst German women regarding which invader would be preferable : "Better a Russian on your belly (implying rape) than an American over your head!" You can bet your sweet ass that the German citizens who got a chance to inflict violence and torture on captured American forces took full advantage of it. American airmen received the worst treatment of all.

[@noracarnahan6847]

@@Britton_Thompson, thank you so much for your reply and the documentary! We should never forget the sacrifices they made!!! It’s hard to believe that they do not want to teach this in schools anymore and brainwashing the young to think socialism is the way to go! God bless you!

[@arfnog12]

My dad is German and was captured in Africa. After running out of food and ammunition he told his men to dig a large fox hole and to cover it so they wouldn't be seen until he knew who they where serendering too. He had fought in every opening of every country invaded, and from seeing the behavior of each country's prisoners he knew the country he wanted to serender to. They had seen Britsh and America troops but stayed hidden till he saw Canadian troops, once they did they surrendered. He spent weeks on a small ship marked as medical ship with its red cross, in reality it was used to move ammunition across the Mediterranean sea. After a few weeks dad and some others from his panzer division where sent to Canada. He was sent to a logging camp he was so impressed with the beauty of the Canadian bush, he would say the air was so fresh it washed away the smell of death. His camp was a large cross section of the Geman millitary from foot soldiers to officers. They were payed for there work as they logged huge trees of the area. The prisoners were allowed to make there own furniture for the camp and 2 men got to build a hallowed out canoe and were allowed to use it in a near by lake. Dad saved his money to buy a watch that he cherished and I have today. He said the camp was guarded by old men and many spoke German because they were only the second generation of there familys that came from Germany. He told a story of walking out to start logging one day and a large pissed off bear began to charge some of the men, the guard didn't know what to do so he passed my dad his rifle and dad shot it then gave him is gun back. He fell in love with Canada after he got back to Germany he made it his goal to imagant to Canada and well thats what he did. Sorry for the long story be happy this is the short version!

[@evalynchuran8684]

Same thing with my dad and mom.

[@joelgervais6819]

Many of Canada’s mountain national parks and roads were built by German POW’s. Many of the camps didn’t even have fences because escapees never got far enough before returning to avoid starvation or death in the wilderness. Canada had an immigration program after the war that provided land in Canada for POW’s and their families; most chose to stay and their descendants make up much of Canada’s German population today.

[@bg147]

What brand watch?

[@johncasa2488]

Glad people like him are gone. Say what you want. About my judgment, I’m ok with sitting on a hot coal. I will one day see your father for what he’s done. Good day.

[@patriciabell-williams7847]

Theo Brauch Thanks for sharing

[@superganjahleaf619]

Wow, I just got the chills the way this man paints quite the picture with his words, as he quotes a line from his book "...filthy and muddy from battle, Steel helmet and even armed to the teeth Come the first American GI who most of us had ever seen." Because the way he composed it, the words he chooses are so humbly real that only a man that was living that hell would see such detail in every second of life. Thats why I got the chills...

[@stayjit1]

I'm old enough to have talked with a German prisoner in Canada. It is against the Geneva Convention to force prisoners to do labor, but they could volunteer to work certain jobs. He worked in Ontario, with others, logging the forests for lumber and when the war ended - he stayed. That's how I met him of course.

[@joelgervais6819]

They couldn’t work on war industries, but were permitted to work in other industries, much of Canada’s original national parks infrastructure in the mountain parks was built by German POW’s.

[@713devereux]

@@joelgervais6819 Interesting

[@ajcl1965]

I wish you could go to talk about such "Geneva Convention" to an SS when they captured anyone, most probably they laugh for the joke. Do you have any idea how many times the nazis violated that and others treatements along the war? The nazi were merciless, enjoyed to kill, torture, steal, plunder; so you couldn´t be nice with somebody like that. They prayed to be american pow´s, because they knew that wasn´t going to be the same with the russians.

[@ford9339]

@@ajcl1965 the ss did what they wanted to the russians because the russians didnt sign the Geneva convention.

[@ajcl1965]

@@ford9339 Nah! The SS were a kind of gunned cannibals. They weren´t going to respect any treatment anyway. Actually, the didn´t in many many cases. All of them deserved to die hanged up or shooted in the wall.

[@reubenpowell4395]

My father was in Stalag 17.The Red Cross withheld packages unless you had bartering material. He hated the Red Cross.

[@suesmith9491]

My father to be couldn't stand the red cross

[@baronedipiemonte3990]

The Red Cross sold items to military personnel in WW2 while the USO gave the items for free. The Red Cross today is STILL after the almighty dollar. Part of the United Way, who's principals are paid very well !

[@joepalooka2145]

While my father spent 4 years living in harsh conditions in a POW camp in Germany from 1941-45, German POWs in America and Canada enjoyed a life of luxury in comparison. They were very lucky men indeed.

[@mamavswild]

A lot of this had much to do with the blockades around Germany; there was no food for anyone and the Germans did their best to abide by the Geneva conventions...in order to bring more food to the POWs, they allowed care packages routed through the Swiss to come into the Stalags, my grandfather who was a B17 pilot told me how, to their credit, the Germans never took form the care packages and they ate better food than their captors. (They sometimes even shared their food with them) The same doesn’t apply to the Soviets, however. Their camps were different and ran by the ss. But then, survival rates for both German and Soviet prisoners were roughly the same...one ill turn deserves another, it seems.

[@MFTgal]

My father was in German POW camp 1943 to 1945. Roy Langenstein, US citizen, Bavaria, German heritage. I have not been able to find which camp in Germany.

[@ajcl1965]

That´s why the nazi should die shooted against a wall, all of them. Or be treated in same form they treated their pow, as minimum. No mercy with the enemy, mostly if the enemy doesnt have it with you

[@baronedipiemonte3990]

Your father was a hero ! I read a book about 20 years ago which was about German POWs held in the U.S. One of those former camps is now a National Guard training center about 15 miles away. And yes, the German POWs were treated much better than U S. and Allied prisoners were.

[@jamesi2018]

shut up they survived and got everything they needed, compare that to what happened to the prisoners of the japanese, dont try and make out the germans didnt treat their prisoners good they did and only the prisoners who hadnt been signed up to geneva convention didnt get good treatement and read about the history of british concentration camps in the boer war before you cry like a little girl

[@cappnzak]

Thank you for posting this video. I was thoroughly engrossed by it.Most of the footage I had never viewed before,-and I don't often say that.Much appreciated. I sit here thinking how a few of the people who lived through these events are ,amazingly,still with us,-but obviously not for much longer.These black and white images seem so long ago,but,with these survivors, first-hand knowledge and memories are still with us.Amazing. Such frightening times they were,but we have not changed.We are the same animal now as we were then.

[@fabian1324]

we r if we let it?

[@robertandrews6915]

But now we act like our shit don’t stink and nothing like that will happen again

[@normajeanmorrissey4459]

Man’s inhumanity to man never ceases to amaze me. General Sherman said, “ War is hell!”. He wasn’t kidding!

[@ispeaku759]

I know the fates of three POWs from our village. They all were captured in 1942. One of them was my great-grandfather. He managed to escape from the POW camp. He got back to the ranks and was killed in the battle at Leningrad in 1944. The second and the third ones were his neighbours. One of them agreed to serve the Germans and distributed scarce food among the POWs. He often beat them and taunted them with food, humiliated them. Another man from our village recognized him and told that he would find and kill him. After the war the collaborationist came back first. Then in 1946 returned his neighbour who had sworn to kill him. When the man who collaborated with the Germans heard about it he went to the river and drowned himself. After the war only about a quarter of our men made it back to the village alive.

[@paudsmcmack3117]

Wow! Where are you from? Amazing you have a connection to these events. Slowly people are forgetting sadly for the men that died in places like leningrad.

[@Akula114]

Stunningly good documentary. It is good to see information presented rather than just opinion. I'm not saying every detail was correct, I wasn't there, but neither were most people who have formed opinions on the issues that might be contested. Good job fellows, good job. Thank you!

[@robertpayne2717]

A friend of mine, was a Guard in Washington State, said that they had more escape attempts at the end of the war. Several attempt were made from a train on it's way to the east coast for shipment back to Germany..They didnt want to go back

[@chelamcguire]

Dare I say that this was a very touching documentary.........well covered re POW in Europe. Alas, my uncle was a POW in Japan and it did so much emotional and physical damage to him which endured until his dying day. To be a German POW in the USA looked like the best bet. I wonder how many decided to remain there after the war. I must chase that up. So, in short, a very good posting. Much enjoyed.

[@Steven-lz7on]

Chela McGuire the japanese pow were treated terribly. The hellships were the worst. Thousands crammed in boiling hot dark cargo holds with barely any water for weeks at a time. Unbearably thirsty many went insane or died.

[@ntokozosibanyoni1421]

"well covered re POW in Europe", not to reduce your pain bruh but Soviet POWs were barely mentioned and they by far suffered the most and were most certainly dealt the heaviest of blows of not just the POWs in Europe, but the WHOLE war. So lets not get ahead of ourselves

[@aardvark1956]

Too bad so little is shown of those captured by the Japanese. Totally different experience. Some held by Germany were short of food; many held by Japan were deliberately STARVED, marched or worked to DEATH.

[@gribwitch]

"...Too bad so little is shown of those captured by the Japanese....". I wondered that too. In fact they never mentioned them in the video.Maybe they should make a second video covering this aspect. The Japanese were monsters in their treatment of allied P.O.W.'s. Anyone who has read the book "The Knights Of Bushido" by Lord Russell of Liverpool ( now out of print ) would know what I mean. Or even perusing through the Japanese War Crimes hearings.

[@aardvark1956]

Correct re: this video - I was thinking about generally as well. 😉But sometimes I forget that my mind can be a hard thing to read.😄

[@sponish0]

The prisoners on the Jewish camps got that kind of treatment you speak off

[@hey_joe7069]

Ah Well, There it is. If you were as educated as Marcos is, you'd need not even ask what happened with allied prisoners in Japans charge. You'd already know.

[@SirBitchalot]

@@overbeb True. Valid point.

[@ecs2199]

My father actually shows up in this video - he was a POW in 1944, he's in a wool cap nodding and smiling as Patton's forces are liberating his prison camp. Dad didn't spend a lot of time talking about his experiences either, but it had a profound impact on the rest of his life, as well as my parent's marriage.

[@sfc5239]

Cool. At what minute? It must have taken you by surprise seeing him in the video. I wish you, your father, and the rest of your family all the best

[@gregorymonacelli2257]

Veterans Day always makes me think about my Dad who I always had and always will have great respect for. I know some of you knew my dad too, and can attest to his character. This is a story I’d always like to share around this time of year to honor him, and all veterans living and diseased, including Purple Heart recipients. My father really never spoke about it, But this is a story that was told to me by some of his army buddies about 40 years ago while sitting around the pool in Florida. I think some of you who take the time to read this, may find it interesting. Although my pops lived to be 90, when he was on his death bed in the hospital, pumped up with morphine, he did clarify what happened in some amazing detail. Not sure if this constitutes him being a POW since he was only captured and held by the Nazi’s for a week, but this the story about my pops! He did tell me about boot camp where he had to chase away coyotes every night on training maneuvers out in the deserts in Arizona, and how he was trained on mules and horses. They actually taught the mules to lay down, and they would mount a 50 caliber on their side. This is what he also told me. He was in the 17th Cavalry, Recon. They managed to get through the D Day invasion. A couple of months later they were going into a seaport town called Brest. It was a very important stronghold where the Nazi’s had U-boats hidden. My father had done several reconnaissance missions before. On this particular day, the higher ups sent him on a surveillance mission. When he got back, he reported that there were over 400 Nazis stationed down this road. The officer I charge told my father to take him in the Jeep to where they were. My dad said, that if they went down there, they weren’t going to come back. But, the officer insisted, and my dad followed orders. They headed down the road when a 88 mortar came in and flipped the Jeep over. His commanding officer literally got his head blown off, and my father got a good piece of his calf blown off. While he was trying to crawl away from the Jeep that was burning, he got shot with machine gun fire. At this point he told me that he was trying to get his belt off to apply a tourniquet on his own leg. Another 88 came in and blew a hole out of his lower back that you could put your fist in. Growing up, looking at my father, his body looked like a road map which I often wondered why. Anyway, after the second mortar came in, all he said he remembered was laying there in a daze, watching a bunch of German soldiers running up the cobblestone street with them big black boots on which he described the noise they made. He remembers them going into his holster and taking a German Luger out that my father was carrying. He told me that he heard them cock it. He said he shrugged his shoulders expecting the back of his head to be blown out. Instead, the dragged him into a barn, where they had an old French woman patch him up before they interrogated him. Although he was aware of what was going on, every time they asked him questions, his response was, d-o-c-t-o-r! He told me that he winded up living in this barn for over a week with a handful of the Germans, but he had already called in the coordinates of where they were. About a week later the Americans came in captured over 400 nazis, and got is busted up ass out of there. My father did over a year in the hospital, where they told him, (and this was just the first time) that he would probably never walk again. But with his strong will and faith, he told them different and he did walk again. Not great, but he did. My father met General Patton, and received a Purple Heart and bronze star for his roll in capturing the 400 Nazis. Shortly after my father was captured, the 17th Cavalry was disbanded due to the fact that there were so many lost. The rest that were left were put in with the 15th. My father’s friends told me they all dubbed him with the nic-name “Lionheart”. My father’s strong will and determination stayed with him throughout the rest of his life with all the complications from his wounds, from seeing his youngest son, my brother pass away along with a host of other different things. My father was well loved by everyone! Was generous, help all he could. He is my greatest inspiration and the hero that I could never be. Through it all, I am thankful that he lived a pretty tough life in and out of hospitals, but he made it to be 90 years old, and did get to see his two grandchildren that he loved. I salute you and all veterans today, and every day. Ok time to get out of bed and get moving. Off to another nursing home to do what I love, and play music for the disabled vets, residents and seniors. Have a good day!

[@charliefyb]

Holy shit this story was amazing ... loved every bit of it . Your dad is a legend and a hero, god bless him and may he Rest In Peace . Thank you so much for sharing this story ! , by any chance you got more?

[@SuperZytoon]

Blessings to you and your Father. What a tough man! Thank you for sharing this story. Thank you for what you do each day to bring happiness to others.

[@gregorymonacelli2257]

@@SuperZytoon thanks, he was without a doubt my hero

[@jennyedwards4873]

Brilliant, fascinating stuff. More of these stories in future. Super Please. Thank you.

[@tessaleroux7725]

Very sad. All prisoners of war. These young men fought for their countries, Americans, British, German. There were no winners. Just so much tragic loss. May all their souls RIP

[@Steven-lz7on]

tessa le roux many pow in japan were deliberately kept constantly hungry and thirsty. Must of being awful.

[@eloinaseguro5230]

Wisely said 💐

[@juusohamalainen7507]

Tessa le Roux. No they didn't all fight for their countries, that is bull shit. Germans and Japanese were conducting a war of aggression ie they attacked their neighbours. That is not fighting for your country but simply a war crime.

[@karlkirchweger4427]

@@juusohamalainen7507 there is always something before. Inform yourself about the Versailles „treaty“ of 1919

[@4wchitstands]

The only winner was Stalin, and we've paid for that mistake since by sending more boys to die in the war against communism.

[@tmdivo1277]

The narrator said at the end of this video, that the Brits used the German PoW's as slave labor in England. What BS that is as compared to the German standards in their slave labor camps. German PoWs in the US and England were well fed, well housed and worked on farms. While we know how the Germans treated their prisoners.

[@shadowpuppet4664]

You are so correct. Then yet He stated that the Jew English turned a blind eye whilst they visited their girlfriend. That makes no sense or did I hear it wrong

[@bg147]

In general, the Americans and British were treated well by the Germans. The Russians and Poles were not... an understatement. Many of the French were placed in forced labor. The German prisoners following the war lived in poor conditions in the prison camps in Germany. In the USA, the German prisoners had it better than African Americans, They were taken to shops/restaurants in the South while Black GIs were not allowed into the same businesses.

[@californiadreamin8423]

I'm thinking of Norman Caterson who was a British commando, shot in the leg and captured at Dieppe. He was one of the prisoners who were handcuffed in the open as some form of reprisal for events at Dieppe. All guards entering their camp were discretely followed by teams of prisoners to prevent being surprised by the guards. A prisoner played a trumpet all day long with every tune indicating which guards were in the camp. One particular very observant guard was given the the Laurel and Hardy tune !! The unexpected news of the surrender of Italy on their secret radio, was greeted by, on the spur of the moment the trumpeter sticking his head out of the window and playing "Oh Oh Antonio ". This caused uproar among the prisoners and surprise to the guards. As the Russians approached many guards were deserting in the night. Norman was approached by a guard. "I'm leaving tonight, and you can come with me"...."What do you want ? " ...."A letter saying I having done my duty but I have not abused the prisoners ". Norman told me that unlike some guards, this particular guard had been fair " ...."Ok I'll give you a letter, but I want something from you "...."What ?"....."I want your pistol "...."Ok".....and that is how Norman escaped, making his way to the American lines after a number of adventures. He stayed with the Americans and was part of a team to identify guards at his camp who had committed war crimes. Later back in England he received a letter thanking him and that one particular guard had been found, tried and hung. If this sounds a little far fetched, I can only say I found his story to be very detailed, giving me no reason to doubt it's accuracy. He even showed me his diary with a list of guards with their tunes played by their trumpeter.

[@fuzzymath6240]

great story! this is one of those gems that I love to find. sometimes the comments are as interesting as the film itself. thankyou

[@californiadreamin8423]

Gayle Elizabeth Hello . For some reason, I am a little late in reading your post. I’m afraid Norman is no longer with us, passing away a few years after his retirement, in the early 80’s. I have always wondered what happened to his diary. During the lead up to the Dieppe raid, he was instructed to take a despatch to the HQ of one of the Canadian units. The HQ were located in a country mansion, and it was dark as Norman crunched his way up the gravel drive. Coming from NE England , he could not understand French and so when someone shouted “Qui va la “.....he ignored the challenge. Fortunately the shot fired at him missed 😳 They trained with some Canadians one of whom was a baseball fan, a catcher, and at every opportunity would drive everyone mad, continually asking everyone to throw balls for him. They were in a cellar in Dieppe. I asked Norman what were they doing in a cellar ? ....” looking for Germans “ gave me food for thought. Suddenly the cellar door opened and a hand appeared , throwing in a stick grenade, whereupon the “catcher” caught it and threw it straight back, with the obvious result !! Later Norman was shot in the leg and captured. I’ve tried to accurately retell his story.

[@californiadreamin8423]

fuzzy math See my reply to Gayle Elizabeth :))

[@bobryan8855]

Cal

[@californiadreamin8423]

Hello again. In the engineering office in which I worked, Norman sat near me. We were in different sections but I think he worked in spares and dealt with pension issues. He was always on the phone, was a bit loud, known to everyone, quite a character, and to a certain extent people made fun of him. I didn’t really get to know him until one day , I caught sight of the scar on his lower leg which was giving him trouble. When asked how he had injured his leg , I was startled when he said he had been shot !!! This started off many chats about his experiences, which I’ve talked about here. My father was conscripted into the army as a stretcher bearer in 1939 , and served in France, Dunkerque, North Africa, Salerno , Anzio, and the Gothic Line. I am still in awe of what happened to him and men like Norman.

[@dipubiswas8520]

Happy to see smiling face of those lucky survivors...

[@joeguzman3558]

Back in 1970s my next door neighbor was a ww2 German pow in Texas , after the war he moved to Texas because to him life was much better than Germany even way after the war ,he managed to end up Whit his uniform and medals ,he was a very smart old man I remember he used to fix anything for the neighbors from a air conditioning unit to a car transmission for wherever you wanted to pay him,

[@mobilechief]

My house was built from a barracks used to hose Germans in the U,S, Richmond Army Airfield camp, my Grandfather brought the building after the war to build the house. I still have a locker door with German graffiti on it

[@joenobody571]

That's a pretty awesome and rare piece of war memorabilia

[@phil6025]

@@davejones5640 You're a fucking idiot.

[@oceanblue3050]

Germans draw penis graffiti?

[@pt8208]

Dave was sodomised by a German Scoutmaster, never got over it, poor lad.

[@severianmonk7394]

Paul T: There are exercises you can do to reverse the effects. Google it.

[@Just_R0yc3]

My grandaddy was a kid during ww2. He said some times, when he was walking down the road, there were trucks with german POWs going by

[@garyrunnalls7714]

Gunther Rall, what a great fighter pilot and gentleman.

[@jameswebb4593]

I was born on the Isle of Sheppey and I'm fairly certain that there was a small Italian POW camp on the Island side of the bridge.

[@annawarner1078]

My father was officer in Polish Army and was captured by Germans in early October 1939. He spent entire war in offlag in Murnau (Bavaria). He survived by eating scraps Germans were feeding their pigs. Murnau has been liberated in May 1939 by American Army. My father literally walked back to his home city of Sandomierz only to find out that his brother Stanislaw Krawczynski who was a medical doctor and member of Polish parliament was murdered in mass execution in June 1940 with 760 other people, Their bodies were buried in unnamed mass grave. His son who was born after my father became POW was killed by Germans when he was 4 years old. My father had never have seen him. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oflag_VII-A_Murnau

[@gribwitch]

"...Murnau has been liberated in May 1939 by American Army....". Newsflash - the war hadn't even started in May 1939. And the Americans didn't enter the war until 1941. I believe you meant 1945. You may want to edit your post, Anna !!

[@pashvonderc381]

@F. Friedrich Kling Did not the Soviet Union actually admit that they were responsible for Katyn a few years back..?

[@pashvonderc381]

@F. Friedrich Kling that's right, I remember seeing a documentary about exhonourating the Germans for it, Also I believe there is a Polish film , with English subs, called Katyn. It's available on Amazon Prime..

[@donaldhoult7713]

@@gribwitch She is not writing in her own language, Graham. Her story had the ring of truth.

[@donaldhoult7713]

@F. Friedrich Kling Hauss Before end of 1918, Poland had been divided ( and warred over between themselves ) by Russia, Germany and Austro-Hungary. The ethnic Germans had often had been newcomers a mere 20 years before 1939. I don't blame the Poles for wanting their own lands back. The Germans behaved as one would expect animals to behave!

[@elenthora442]

Very interesting! A lot of good information from real people and a good place to start off a study of POW's.

[@fredreddies1220]

my uncle lost all his teeth in a english pow camp from malnutrishion they fedthem a thin broth made from pumpkins

[@pamelajordan5948]

True so true 😫😫😫

[@barrybaz6692]

I can imagine , The British public was also starving at that time . I'm sure they got Red Cross parcels like those POWs in Germany did .

[@johngibson465]

@@crankyrebate8161 have you ever been to uk you fucking dimwit?

[@md.9060]

Excellent and extremely informative.

[@MrOuija-rr8kq]

Always wanted to see people talk more about Soviets in captivity.

[@kelvinJustice]

The wickedness of man to humanity....

[@robertgoines1831]

It'll take your breath away am I right? It's totally mindblowing that we can be that cruel to 1 another. I find myself getting a little emotional sometimes if I see a sad scene in a movie or 1 of those St. Jude children's cancer commercials I just can't watch. Or seeing how people treat their own children, or elderly parents. Nah the world just seems to get colder, more cruel, + evil everyday that passes. Please try to break that evil cycle with at least 1 nice thing especially towards a stranger. God bless you and thanks for sharing your comment. And my apologies for the long winded response

[@PacoOtis]

Excellent! Thanks so much for the video. These need to be viewed by school children so they might be more aware of shoulders we stand on.

[@SuperBigblue19]

I am convinced that if the treaty of Versailles was not so draconian, WW2 would of never happened.

[@jimomaha7809]

True even the Allies came to that conclusion. Even before the signing there were objections from British diplomats and economist. In 1923 the Alies realised that the treaty was to draconian and started to revise the treaty. and with the years different treaties were made, Dawes plan1923 , Young plan 1930, Hoover plan 1931, Lausanne treaty 1932.

[@cityandsuburb]

I have to agree sir. ...

[@bellelise.]

I am in complete agreement with you.

[@Cardan011]

Jim Omaha objections came from Americans not British

[@androidtv4589]

The treaty had nothing to do with it.it was to do with the hatred of Jews.

[@darkec71]

My grandfather was a soldier of Yugoslav Royal Army, captured by Wermacht and Croatian Ustasha during the "April war of 1941" (Axis invasion on Kingdom of Yugoslavia). Taken to German POW camp near Pinneberg in Schleswig -Holstein. Spending there 16 months working in nearby factory. Royal Yugoslav POWs were treated worse than French or British POWs, but better than Polish or Soviet POWs. While French or British POWs were receiving Red Cross parcels on pretty regular basis,..., my grandfather told that he and his commrades received a parcel only once (a small package of pipe tobacco). He was released in summer of 1942 as the part of Yugoslavia (Slovenia) he was living was occupied by Hungary and he became a hungarian citizen (Hungary was also colaborating with Axis) and actually Hungarians were mobilizing men for the Russian front. When he returned home, he actually managed to avoid mobilization in Hungarian army and later during the war joined Yugoslav partisan movement and went into war against Nazis. After the war he managed to compensate the months spent in the POW camp for the retirement benefits (the period in POW was added to his active work period and enabled him to retire couple of months earlier). That compensation was part of war reparations West Germany paid to Yugoslavia.

[@Ystadcop]

We (well, my parents although Farther was in the RAF) accommodated an Italian prisoner in 1943. He was working on a farm in Tur Langton. He stayed till 1976.

[@ldg508]

The Germans captured in England got some nerve complaining about treatment compared to the way the Germans where treating POW

[@anthonypeters2353]

Right, german pow " i remember one day we didnt have honey for our tea n krumpits it was terrible" prisoners of germany " i remember one day they killed 100,000 people while eating krumpets and drinking tea and laughing about it the sick f××k$"

[@winningbigly9012]

@@anthonypeters2353 crumpets

[@donaldhoult7713]

@@winningbigly9012 Or even crumpet - depends for which team you bat.

[@frostroxie2740]

Not a word about how terrible Japan was to POW’s.....

[@davejones5640]

Or you being put in the corner as a child. Damn them.

[@ynotcougar]

I was a Prisoner for 13 and 1/2 years. It was Horrible. After almost getting kicked in my pumpernickel, I divorced her. I find my living conditions to be quite agreeable now. ...........

[@Reflection_Wave]

13 years & half? are you drug dealer??

[@barryguyer8005]

Michael Lawson I feel for you brother. I was treated the same way for 10 years.

[@scottleft3672]

You will NEVER ecape....your oversized ego.

[@barryguyer8005]

scott left no he doesn't have a ego

[@TomTheSiberianHusky]

^seconded. By a gay guy.

[@michaelmijares5547]

Günther Rall shot down 275 aircraft during his career as a fighter pilot. He's the third highest scoring aces of all time.

[@DaveSCameron]

So he says!

[@DaveSCameron]

@LET IT BE TIME WILL TELL And yet for all your claims of numbers they failed entirely ...

[@DaveSCameron]

@LET IT BE TIME WILL TELL Well pointed out and sadly this will not be the 1st error we are fed in these generic docs. Best Wishes...

[@DaveSCameron]

@LET IT BE TIME WILL TELL How is this relevant to this thread? It`s commonly known from that the numbers you quote hold a majority of Bomber crew, training accidents, collisions and so on...

[@ford9339]

No shit they failed. Germany only had to fight everyone.

[@Yasser.Osman.A.Z.]

Wow, a non propaganda documentary. Excellent

[@Biffo1262]

The death of so many prisoners of war in allied hands does us no service. They were cruel and needless deaths caused by countries that claimed to be above such acts. Regardless of the atrocities perpetrated by the enemy, to stoop the level of deliberate starvation of prisoners made us no better than the enemy we were fighting.

[@tomfuelery2905]

I remember an old docu-series I used to watch of a pow camp. I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned. The prisoners could escape at will, but chose to stay and helped the allies behind the lines. The commandant was hapless and the head guard was lazy and easily bribed. No mention here of Stalag 13.

[@jakethompson4673]

Hogan's Hero's...well played.

Gunther Rall, here interviewed was a Luftwaffe ace with 275 victories and wearer of the Knight Cross with Diamonds!

[@XxBloggs]

I wonder how many he really had. Some German aces over claimed massively.

@@XxBloggs But he did NOT. The allied pilots were ACES after having shot down 12 aircraft.

[@GottliebGoltz]

BOO.!

[@chrisbell5920]

14:33 > Lt. Franz von Werra, shot down during the Battle of Britain and interned at Grizedale Hall, Cumbria, from which he escaped, was recaptured actually sitting in the cockpit of the British aircraft he was attempting to steal and fly back to Germany. His story is related in the book and the film "The One Who Got Away", portrayed by Hardy Kruger.

[@Sturminfantrist]

he had survived the war when he stayed in safe POW camp

[@cw4608]

My friend Lyle R’s dad was captured in Africa and while being marched to another camp escaped when strafed by a pilot. Unsure whether an Allied or Axis pilot.

[@normfreilinger3664]

Thanks for the memories 🎹🎼

[@kickpublishing]

Germany abided by the Geneva Convention with POWS in an exemplary manner as long as they could - the shortage of food and conditions towards the end of the war were no different than what the German people suffered. All the propaganda is now worn so thin, its time we were more honest: everybody was brutal, everybody tried their best at times but all failed, there were no "good guys" in the end - only victors. WW2 was absolutely brutal and made monsters of everybody.

[@opressedrussianminority7421]

"Germany abided by the Geneva Convention with POWS in an exemplary manner as long as they could" 50-60% of Soviet POWs died in German Camps. 3 million in 1941 alone. They had the food and resources to keep the rate at 30% but they didn't because they gave a shit about the Geneva Convention when it came to Partisans and the Soviets.

[@bg147]

@@opressedrussianminority7421 I assume he as referring to British and American prisoners.

[@opressedrussianminority7421]

@@bg147 It doesn't make sense in his sentence then because when the way he said it it's about every POW. The Geneva Convention also applied to countries which did not sign it.

[@bg147]

@@opressedrussianminority7421 I understand. Many, though, see the USA as the center of the universe and don't consider other countries.

[@donaldhoult7713]

@ President of The Internet. Monsters of SOME more than others - particularly the Germans towards Jews and Japanese towards anybody so unfortunate as to fall into their hands; military AND civilian

[@enriquemireles8947]

My father was captured right after the Bulge, 42nd Division. was forced march to Stalag 5a then 5b.not much to eat drop below 90 pounds. He said they did not have it as rough as the Russians who were next to them. The Russians didn’t have barracks just holes and make shift tents.

[@ifloridawarriorcatfan9918]

My great uncle came from the wealthiest family in Germany, he and his family got their money from owning a meat shop, his brother was shot in the street and killed by nazi soldiers when he refused to join them. And his father died because they bombed the family’s meat shop and since my great uncle was young at the time they spared him and took him to a Nazi training camp instead, and when he arrived there, he saw Hitler face to face looking at the new recruits. Then after he was taken to the training camp, the nazis took their house and made it their base. Later on when the American soldiers came they freed him and he got a passport to immigrate to America. The outcome his life turned him into a bitter man.

[@anthonylafayette4385]

You don't get a passport to enter the US, you might get a ticket but not a passport. Only citizens are issued passports.

[@mikehunt4607]

@@anthonylafayette4385 yeah I don't mean to dismiss anybody's stories but this one seems a bit far fetched. Also wealthiest family in Germany were butchers?

[@donaldhoult7713]

@@mikehunt4607 Many Nazis were butchers.

[@mikehunt4607]

@@donaldhoult7713 butchers as in meat shop owners

[@mblalex]

Well done and informative. GREEDY KZbin gave a commercial every 5 minutes.

[@EIKLURAM]

There's nothing about Soviet treatment of POWs.?

[@ozdavemcgee2079]

Dont be silly. Evetyone knows the soviets treatment was proper and correct. Prisoners were issued new clothing, chocolate, brandy or rum and lived in abject luxury as per all people living in the utopia of Russia

[@sauce790]

@@ozdavemcgee2079 I like this comment

[@toosiyabrandt8676]

HI Apparently it wouldn't have been paid til 1967? Or thereabouts! Shalom to us only in Christ Yeshua.

[@saltychips4866]

There's never any mention of Soviets deporting Jews to gulags in Siberia or being used as slave labor.

[@dadd7570]

Marcos 989 God bless President Trump. 4 more years. lol

[@gelynch52phPH]

This is only a HALF documentary. PW Camp #1 - Cabanatuan 1-2-3 Nueva Province Luzon Philippines PW Camp #2 - Davao Mindanao Philippines PW Camp #3 - Old Bilibid Prison Rizal Manila Philippines PW Camp #4 - O'Donnel Tarlac Luzon Philippines PW Camp #5 - Baybombong Luzon Philippines PW Camp #7 - Corregidor Corregidor Is. Philippines PW Camp #8 - Bachrach Garage Manila Luzon Philippines PW Camp #10 - Lipa Batanges Luzon Phillipines PW Camp #10 - Batanges Batanges Luzon Philippines PW Camp #11 - Port Terminal Bldg. Manila Luzon Philippines PW camp #17 - North Central Luzon Luzon Philippines Puerto Princesa Palawan Philippines

[@roxx5298]

25% of POWs in Japan died 4% in Germany and Italy

[@gregnz1]

1/3 of Japanese POWS were killed or lost in transport ships sent back to Japan as slave labour.

[@stephenarling1667]

The most unlucky prisoners were sent by Imperial Japanese to be vivisected at Unit 721. For that atrocity alone, all of Japan deserved to be nuked flat, forever ending its existence as a state.

[@greggiles7309]

@@stephenarling1667 America got all the research on that, no doctors were ever prosecuted for war crimes.

[@MegaBoilermaker]

@@greggiles7309 As with German rocket scientists.

[@Tboy439]

@@greggiles7309 ...No doctors were prosecuted because unit 721 was made up of Freemasons, the same people who run things like the shriners hospitals today, you know all those people who are constantly playing on our sympathies and asking for money. And everybody thinks their sooooo wonderful.

[@fuzzymath6240]

thankyou what an interesting fantastic film

[@alexdahn5329]

60,000 Russian prisoners captured in the first surprise attack by Germany on Russia were starved to death in prison camps in Germany and Poland.

[@bubiruski8067]

True, because the Germans did not have food for themselves. But had not the Brits made overtures to the Soviets Barbarossa had never happened !

[@donaldhoult7713]

@@bubiruski8067 Barbarossa happened because a megalomaniac wanted oil and wheat.

[@bubiruski8067]

@@donaldhoult7713Hm, Comrade Stalin delivered everything the nazis needed to beat the imperialists freely.

[@johntait491]

A sensible, informative and balanced documentary.

[@HemlockRidge]

My Grandfather was a Bombardier in a B24 Liberator, for the US 8th AAF, , 392nd BG, 579th SQ. He was shot down and became a "Kreigie" at Stalag Luft 1, in Barth.

[@esdrasfishcher3603]

I remember him..Yes., My mother of 4 single, heard noise of a plane falling from sky.. but, She wasn't so sure, cause her sister was making sooo much noise, as she was beeing hump by Nazi officers, for cheese, bread, milk, ..Yeah that was mother all right.. Then, all suddenly all was heard, ohhhohaaa.. I couldn't recall, but sounds from room , sound like, ohhh mmm mhaa , something like that.. All hell broke loose, Pilot , your granddaddy, fell right threw the roof, in one of rooms, and one of Nazi officers, who where in room, humping aunt Marie said" WHAT THE FUCK , What War it was..I remember,

[@anthonypeters2353]

God bless him

[@mountainguyed67]

@@esdrasfishcher3603, funny.

[@shanerobert2032]

Truth is always one of the first casualties in war

[@donaldhoult7713]

' Shne Robert. And the peace. I mean we all know that Hollywood won the war.

[@Don-mu2qh]

It was a very informative video. Thanks for posting. I know that you can't cover everything but I kind of expected a mention of Operation Keelhaul or anything about the pacific theater, such as the Bataan death march but it seemed like an evenhanded and fair presentation of a subject that is too often presented hysterically.

[@vincentpellegrino789]

Very interesting. and informative.

[@Chironex_Fleckeri]

Love the upbeat music when the American POW camps came up. Like a dream sequence. Not bad! Not bad at all!

[@subrahmanyamkoppula5618]

Very informative to new generations

[@sandeshkadam3040]

🕉️🇮🇳🙏🚩👍

[@roxx5298]

Russia did not return most of their POWs.

[@salag13]

The last German POWs were repatriated in 1955.

[@donkeyslayer4661]

Oh, boo-boo, one barbaric country treating another barbaric country badly. Payback is a bitch.

[@anthonypeters2353]

Im sad they returned any, we should have taken germany off the map

[@iainhastings2927]

@@anthonypeters2353 twat

[@severianmonk7394]

Repatriating them would have required exhuming them and just think how messy that would be.

[@steveelliott8640]

There were many POWs from Russian held areas that volunteered to change sides and fight for the Germans. After the war most were sent back to Russia and were shot. Also many from the Baltic States fought for the Germans. Some were allowed to stay in the West, but those who were sent back were either sent to a Gulag or shot.

[@twstf8905]

"D-Day," begins at 36:12 "Liberation," begins at 40:30 "Defeated Enemy," begins at 44:30 (You're welcome 👍)

[@charlesmitchell8516]

One video I watched said only1% of POWs in German hands died while 35% of POWs in Japanese camps died.

[@mikeskelly2356]

That can't include the Russian captives. Many of them wound up as slave labor and died in the camps...

[@anthonypeters2353]

Hello what are the jewish people but pows, no one suffered the loss they did.

[@mountainguyed67]

@@mikeskelly2356 I’ve heard those numbers used for American POWs, it wouldn’t include Russian.

[@donaldhoult7713]

@@anthonypeters2353 Well said, and who now hears about Sobibor where more than 600 escaped death camp internment in a single mass escape - sustaining more than 50% mortality.

[@guidoreijnders1661]

The U.S gave the german soldier not the status of POW, but made disarmed soldier and they did not treat the german accourding iwith the geniva rules. They als bannen the red cross from visting the camps were the germans were . They als forced the germans to clear minefields.

[@nicholastimperio4133]

Wrong!

[@guidoreijnders1661]

@@nicholastimperio4133 Not wrong

[@toosiyabrandt8676]

HI My father was a POW in Colorado from 1943 til 1947, and reported good treatment, good food, clean accommodation and having to work on a German immigrant American potato farm, which would not have been in any way unusual, and definitely not below standard according to the Geneva Convention. Shalom to us only in Christ Yeshua.

[@guidoreijnders1661]

@@toosiyabrandt8676 , yes the POW that were made before 1945 had a beter live thans the german soldier that surrender in 1945. They were put in the rheinwiessenlagers.

[@guidoreijnders1661]

@@nicholastimperio4133 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheinwiesenlager

[@patreidcocolditzcastle632]

much love to my brothers here

[@bobapbob5812]

The compounds holding the German "non prisoners" look a lot like Andersonville.

[@benadam7753]

And the conditions were just the same as Andersonville.

[@dhirajfernando5373]

No mention of the POWs on the Pacific Front?????

[@ivanthemisunderstood6940]

False narrative by 1:50. Western POWs in German custody that the Soviets captured simply disappeared. Soviets eventually repatriated surviving German POWs, but not western POWs. Repeated in Korea.

[@ngatearii729]

Thanks!

[@richardevppro3980]

Where i live in the uk a small Town Called huddersfield ,We had a German POW camp at a village called Honley and 2 of the Bilites /long sheds are still up but in a well-knackered condition now .All my Family from the war knew about it as they marched the soldiers to make some roads in Huddersfield town center!

[@thomasb8658]

My Great Grandfather was a Pow in Britain. I dont know how they treated him but he wrote a book during that Time which nowadays is in my possesion.

[@neiltappenden1008]

Normally it depends on what branch of the forces he was

[@stratmanstratman5856]

They had a high number of depressed prisoners you think like there going to be happy about being captured stuck in a cell not being fed properly what do you expect

[@johncomstock2759]

Something they missed in the feature, that many German POW's that were held in the USA were guarded by African-American troops.

[@kaczynskis5721]

It didn't really look at the fate of enlisted British POWs in German hands, a somewhat neglected area - the officers, especially those who made escape attempts, are much better known. Enlisted POWs often worked on farms or were sent to factories.

[@veronicabennett4359]

My father who was captured at Arnhem was sent to an arbeitslager near Leipzig where, during the bitter winter of 1944/45, he was forced to work in the snow without boots. He got very bad frostbite and nearly had both his feet amputated. The Germans guarding his camp only treated the POWs more kindly when it became apparent that Germany was going to lose the war and they would be answerable for their treatment of the prisoners.

[@donaldhoult7713]

@ kacznski S. You're correct - it is still a 'class thing'. Sergeant Coward, made seven escapes and accomplished this whilst still having to work. Unlike the public school sort of officer, the other ranks have always been of little significance to upper crust British - there is still little improvement in this attitude.

[@redeemer1167]

A haughty Pakistan went to war with India in 1971 in 14 days they licked the dust, lost half their country and 93000 Muhammed prisoners. They were treated with dignity and fed well and fattened, last released honourably to go back home.

[@redeemer1167]

@Mahdokt Walter I am a witness to it.

[@malcolmdale]

I suppose there aren't too many people alive who can remember seeing German prisoners of war. I was born in 1939 and still have a memory of a prisoner behind a barbed wire fence whittling a toy out of a piece of wood. I don't remember anything else but I suppose my parents took me there to see.

[@eklypised]

Malcolm Dale yeah theirs not many WWII vets left these days

[@vivians9392]

I was born in 1943 and barely remember driving past a POW camp in Huntsville, TX, and my Dad pointing out POWs playing baseball in the fields. My sister was 5 years older and remembered it well. They were well fed and healthy looking...

[@jerryw6699]

everyone should first remember that the first casualty of war is truth.

[@lestaleky]

italian rifles never been fired and only dropped once

[@npcforyou]

Excellent! Thank you!...

[@waynejfoster9860]

Thank you for posting this very informative video. I have heard many times that at the end of the war German prisoners were suddenly treated really bad and, as the video states, were not classed as P.O.Ws but as the 'defeated enemy'. Therefore the Geneva convention went out of the window. Because of this the German High Command, which was negotiating with the Allies, kicked up a stink about how they were treated and demanded that they were to be set free, fed and watered and treated like normal human beings. Now I agree that they should have been still classed as P.O.Ws but, (now this is where i get set upon) there were no apologies from the Germans about how they treated their P.O.Ws. That many thousands were not fed unless it was with rotten food that not even a pig would eat. And those that were shot just because there was no where to put them. The list goes on. I think that the Allies treated 90% of prisoners the way they should have been treated according to the Geneva convention. With the exception of any SS troops that surrendered. Who were treated really bad because of what they did before and during the war. No country was perfect when it came to P.O.Ws but an eye for an eye comes to mind.

[@buildmotosykletist1987]

@Wayne... : Don't forget that this was British propaganda. It's bound to be critical of the Germans and very king to the allies. The truth lies somewhere between.

[@lakshnine]

Very informative 👍

[@markdavies5066]

Treatment of pow in England , says all when a lot of them decided to stay

[@hannahz6303]

Mark Davies I agree totally with you. Only I am an American. We too treated the German POW's well; not at all how they treated our men!

[@guidoreijnders6262]

@@hannahz6303 If you want to knowhow the US treffend the POW look at the rheinwiessenlager. At the end of the war the allied did not gave the german soldiers the status of POW but called them disarmed criminals. Everyone was guilty till proven that hè was not.

[@Tboy439]

@@hannahz6303 99% of American POW,s returned home safely, and most in good shape. Eisenhower on the other hand started imprisoning practically the entire German {male} population after the war was over, and reclassified them DEF, Disarmed Enemy Forces, so he did not have to treat them under the Geneva Convention. Do a little research on Eisenhower's Rhine Meadow Death Camps, there were 19 of them, but a total of 200 in Germany and France. The first thing you are supposed to do is release prisoners once hostilities are over and a surrender is signed. He started capturing people after it was signed. And while your at it, do a little research on the Morganthau Plan. This was a plan to murder 20 million Germans AFTER the war was over. And between the All-lies and Russians, they easily accomplished this. But as they say, the winners write and control history.

[@glosfishgb6267]

maybe also the fact that half of Europe had been left under soviet control

[@glosfishgb6267]

@@Tboy439 other losses may they live on in Valhalla

[@stargate455]

Thanks for this film as a documentaires

[@lingerslongest]

09:28 With their pick axe handles it looks like they're saying that they're in Stalag 17

[@Cameron4077]

My German father had two uncles who were POWs, one was in Siberia until 1947 and the other was a German communist, captured by them and then later a POW by the Americans and sent to a Texas POW camp.

[@reginaldmcnab3265]

Captain Hauptmann Wesreidau Groß Deutschland Division Those of us still alive after so much suffering will be judged without justice. When this war is over we shall be accused of an infinity of murder, as if everywhere, and at all times, men at war did not behave in the same way. The Forgotten Soldier

[@ripp846]

They weren't singing the blues in 1940 though, were they? No, they were talking victory and destruction of the enemy. Wehrmacht letters home were describing the glorious victory they had achieved.

[@reginaldmcnab3265]

The line of duty!

[@alexandercarder2281]

My grandpa was a Luftwaffe POW in England. If he wasn’t captured in North Africa I wouldn’t exist today.

[@kevinquist]

GERMANY was unprepared for the cruelties of war? thats like saying the devil didnt know about evil.

[@twstf8905]

Ba dum dum PSSSH 🥁

[@anjalifrey4500]

My grandfather was in Offlag 8 after being captured in tobruk

[@clameter]

Huh? Prisoners were kept until the 50s in Russia.

[@scottleft3672]

And longer after korea.

[@corbinmcnabb]

Christoph Lameter A small number who were captured at Stalingrad got home to Germany. Single digit percentages, and yes, in the 1950s.

[@randypurtteman1183]

It is a miracle why more Germans, especially those who were former soldiers, but their families also did not form a life long hatred for America and Britain. Their treatment by both countries after the war is unspeakable. Yes there were those soldiers that deserved harsh treatment, especially that part of the leadership that carried out war crimes. However, during war, which is the most inhuman thing man can do against his fellow man, atrocities are committed by all sides. For instance the bombing of Dresden was totally uncalled for. But Eisenhower's policy that created the situations that the former German soldier was treated to was by any rule of decency harsh and inhumane. I spent many years in Germany while in the service after Vietnam. By in large the Germans treated me with respect, kindness and even friendship. Although after seeing this, I don't understand why.

[@donaldhoult7713]

@ Randy Purtterman. Oh, the bombing of Dresden was a delight to the British of the time. I still applaud it; I having been bombed out twice as a young child who lost both parents and four siblings. You wouldn't understand this - Americans NEVER underwent such horror in their own homeland. Do you also say that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were uncalled for? Do you agree with me that American carpet bombing with napalm and agent Orange attacks on the Vietnamese WERE uncalled for? Do you believe that the "Shock and Awe " tactics were reasonable?

[@gregnz1]

Japan never signed the Geneva convention, why was this ignored? Another history ignoring Emperor Hirohito's war crimes.

[@davejones5640]

Get over it.

[@gregnz1]

@@davejones5640 i am, sure dont complain about the atomic bomb being dropped,

[@stormywindmill]

@@gregnz1 --- Yes ,And a Pity it was only two

[@bg147]

He should have been brought to justice. The Cold War was more important. There is zero justice in war.

[@glosfishgb6267]

My grandfather had been captured and stayed in England after the war

[@morningmist6739]

My grandfather was also a pow here in the uk.He was Italian & after the war he brought his whole family over & made a life here.

[@dr.barrycohn5461]

Can anyone imagine how the Italians treated their POWs..."here, have another serving of mama's spaghetti and meatballs"...they could have fed them to death! The Limmies should have sent their prisoners to a far flung part of the empire like the Falkland Islands, good luck escaping.

[@barrybaz6692]

Dr. Barry Cohn . A lot better than the Russians were by the Germans and then when eventually released Stalin sent them to the Gulags . Lovely !!

[@baronedipiemonte3990]

Actually Sir, the fascist Italians treated the POWs in their charge very badly. Italy's economy was pretty bad during the war, and it's citizens and military suffered much privation, so there was less for the POWs. Not all of the Italian military supported Mussolini and fascism. But those who did often mistreated the POWs. Eventually the Italian prison camps were closed and the POWs transferred to Germany.

[@donaldhoult7713]

@ Dr. Barry Cohn. Whereas the Johnathons or Yanks send them to Guantanamo?

[@MrYeloot]

There are still plenty of KZbin videos that don’t shove ads down your throat every two minutes; but this isn’t one of them. I have Adblock, but it did nothing to stop the ads coming every three minutes. Pure and simple greed, and worthy of every thumbs down it gets

[@Dr.Pepper001]

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[@ExtremeMysteries]

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[@Namsomnia]

Now watch Hellstorm. This is a good fi that shows what really happened in the after war camps..

[@gribwitch]

Hellstorm is pro nazi, anti American propaganda. I looked up the book on Amazon and read the critics reviews, not merely relying on emotionally based readers' reviews. I suspected it was another attempt by nazi sympathisers at distorting history, and that's what it is. Quote from Paul Hofman's review....Thomas Goodrich is a known White Supremacist and an active Holocaust Denier. Knowing that alone should make you wonder how much of this book/movie is unbiased. The truth is Hell Storm is not supported by a single doctorate of history, and has been labeled as a complete farce in the realm of historical academia. Notice that it isn't backed by any primary source documents, testimonies, and that it's author has no background in history or publicized written publications. YES, it is based off fact, and events like mass rapes, and killings certainly did happen on a massive scale, but the gross and abused revision of history in that book alone is so profound that it doesn't take a smart person to know when they are looking at revisionist garbage. I found multiple pieces of evidence that were flat out untrue. Full review here ( scroll halfway down the page ). www.amazon.com/Hellstorm-Death-Nazi-Germany-1944-1947/product-reviews/1494775069/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_viewpnt_rgt?ie=UTF8&reviewerType=all_reviews&pageNumber=1&filterByStar=critical Most of the other critics reviews were scathing too. You've either been deceived or else you're deliberately misleading people. I'm betting it's the latter.

[@nealteitelbaum8660]

This was great. Thank you!