Hitler's British Slaves: Allied POWs in Germany 1939-1945 - Softcover

Sean Longden

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845295196 ISBN 13: 9781845295196

Publisher: Robinson Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

Sean Londgen has conducted numerous interviews and reveals a new perspective on life under the Nazis that has long been forgotten and replaced by the myth of Colditz and The Great Escape.

Between 1939 and 1945 almost 200,000 British and Commonwealth Servicemen were held as Prisoners of War in Germany. Every Allied soldier under the rank of Sergeant was forced to work 12 hour shifts, six days a week, cutting timber, quarrying stone, carving ice from frozen rivers and clearing bombsites. It drove the soldiers to the brink, in which survival was a daily trial. Many starved to death or died from disease, others were killed in accidents or at the hands of their guards.

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Review:

A meticulously-researched, utterly absorbing account -- Yorkshire Post

A powerful indictment of the crimes perpetrated against men who
had surrendered in good faith...Never agian, after Mr Longden's excellent
work, shall we see the plight of the POWs as anything other than
unremittingly monstrous -- Daily Mail, Andrew Roberts

A slave is someone who is made to wrok under thereat to his life.
He isn't paid. He is at the will of his masters. It was the same for us. We
were given a bowl of soup and some bread made from sawdust. If you didn't
do as you were told you were shot.
-- Leslie Allen

Book Description:

The untold story of life in the Allied camps under the Nazis.

About this edition

• Publisher: Robinson Publishing
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1845295196
• ISBN 13: 9781845295196
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320