Captured at Arnhem Men's Experiences in Their Own Words
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ePUB
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Nein
Family Sharing
Nein
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
20.07.2022
Verlag
Pen & Sword MilitarySeitenzahl
304 (Printausgabe)
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106288 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781399088381
Stories of survival and resilence from the soldiers imprisoned after the failed Allied Airbourne operation in the Netherlands during WWII.
For the British 1st Airborne Division Operation Market Garden in September 1944 was a disaster. The Division was eliminated as a fighting force with around half of its men captured.
The Germans were faced with dealing with six,zero prisoners in a fortnight, many of them seriously wounded. Somehow the men were processed and dispatched to camps around Germany and German occupied eastern Europe. Here the men experienced the reality of the collapsing regime-little food and shrinking frontiers.
Once liberated in 1945, returning former prisoners were required to complete liberation questionnaires. Some refused. Others returned before 'Operation Endor' to handle released men and their repatriation to Britain was in place. Around a third did. However the questionnaires that do exist give a picture of every day experience for the two,357 of these elite troops' time in captivity from capture to release.
They show that German procedures were still operating, but that men were often treated inhumanely when moved to camps by closed box cars and when camps were evacuated. Although their interrogators were interested in Allied aircraft and airfields, their interrogators were also concerned about the effect of the new miracle weapons and with politics: how Germany would be treated after an Allied victory?
Nevertheless the airborne men's morale remained high. Some overcame their guards when being evacuated at the end of the War, in some cases joining the Resistance and many record the help received from Dutch, French and German civilians.
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