What German POWs Said About The British Shocked Everyone

In October 1944, a German soldier stepped off a train in Lincolnshire expecting a death camp. He had been told for years what British captivity meant. Starvation. Beatings. Perhaps worse. Instead, a British sergeant handed him a tin mug and apologised for the wait. There was tea at the camp. This is the story of how Britain housed, fed, and worked 400,000 German prisoners of war — and why so many of them, given the chance to go home, chose to stay. Topics: German POWs Britain WWII, prisoner of war camps England 1944, British POW camps WWII, British treatment German prisoners, Bernd Trautmann Manchester City POW, Wehrmacht prisoners Britain, POW farm labour England, Eastern Front Soviet POW camps, British pub culture Sources: Gilbert, Adrian — POW: Allied Prisoners in Europe 1939–1945 (2006) Faulk, Henry — Group Captives: The Re-education of German Prisoners of War in Britain 1945–1948 (1977) Moore, Bob — Prisoners of War in Britain 1939–1945 (1987) Lewis, Julian — The West Country POW Camps (2008) National Archives, Kew — POW camp records, WO series Imperial War Museum — iwm.org.uk Disclaimer: All images, graphics and video footage used in this production are either created, licensed, or legally transformed under fair use. All materials have been transformed during production to meet the criteria of fair use under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976. #BritishMilitary #WWII #MilitaryHistory #BritishHistory #GermanPOWs