Captured at arnhem

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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 a half of its men were captured. The Germans were faced with dealing with 6,000 prisoners in a fortnight; many of them seriously wounded. Somehow the men were processed and despatched 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 an picture of every day experience for the 2,357 of these elite troops' time in captivity from capture to release. They show that German procedures 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 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; carrying out sabotage at artificial oil plants, railway repairs, factories and mines. Some overcame their guards when being evacuated at the end of the War, in some cases joining the Resistance. They record help received from Dutch, French and German civilians.

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A memoir of a young soldier s training as a paratrooper during wwii his wartime service imprisonment and return to his career for the british railways after spending the 1930s working for the london midland scottish railways tom hicks volunteered for war service in 1939 and was initially placed Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Uitvoering: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 01 juli 2022

Aantal pagina's: 304

Hoofdauteur: Peter Green

Hoofduitgeverij: Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Fabrikantgegevens: De informatie van de fabrikant is momenteel niet beschikbaar.

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 156 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 234 mm

Verpakking lengte: 234 mm

EAN: 9781399088374

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