{"id":93672,"date":"2022-06-14T16:35:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T16:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=93672"},"modified":"2022-06-14T16:36:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T16:36:05","slug":"german-pows-in-britain-1945-onwards-by-michael-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/german-pows-in-britain-1945-onwards-by-michael-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"German POWs in Britain: 1945 Onwards-by Michael Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">German POWs in Britain: 1945 Onwards-by Michael Roberts<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-88737\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Michael-Roberts-eLanka.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Roberts\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JFehPgwCo3I\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">(2\/5) Timewatch the Germans we Kept World War II<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">With the wars end many prisoners were soon on their way back home but a program of re-education was devised to supposedly prepare the prisoners for a new life in a different Germany. The full horrors of the Holocaust were put on show and one prisoner who was at the time a hard-line Nazi remembers that many of his comrades did not believe that the Holocaust had taken place thinking it was British propaganda designed to shame the German people even more\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u2026.\u00a0 This process of re education determined whether a prisoner would be sent home early or not and interviews took place to determine the prisoners attitude. Many who at first showed contempt for the British realized that the war was now over and the only way to secure their release was to change their attitude. Many did and the first repatriations took place in 1946. Some were less flexible however and at these interviews (which took place every six months) would show their loyalty to the Nazi regime by marching in to the interrogation room and giving a Nazi salute to the British officer present which would mean further six-months in captivity. Among Waffen SS prisoners this was common and later after the Nuremberg trials when the Waffen SS was deemed a criminal organization many prisoners were held for longer periods simply for being a member of the Waffen SS. The last prisoners repatriated, took place in 1949 but many prisoners did not want to return to Germany as their hometown was in the Soviet sector and fearing another spell of imprisonment in Soviet hands, decided to stay in Britain where they became known as \u201cDPs\u201d or displaced persons. Others married local girls and stayed in Britain where many still live today with the girl they married over fifty years ago. The opportunity to meet local people was given to the German POWs after the war where Christmas would be spent with a local family and regular visits would be made to present local children with toys that had been carved from wood during their spare time. By all accounts there was little animosity towards the German prisoners who by this time had become a familiar sight in several towns ad villages in Britain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">ALSO<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>* <\/strong><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CJc_rfbCRmI\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CJc_rfbCRmI<\/a><\/strong><strong> =World War II: Prisoners of War \u2013 Full Documentary<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>* <\/strong><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tT0ob3cHPmE\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tT0ob3cHPmE<\/a><\/strong><strong> = H\u00fcrtgen forest and the end of World War II | Free Full DW Documentary<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u2026Thousands of soldiers were killed in the last battles of World War II. US troops who fought in the H\u00fcrtgen Forest nicknamed it the \u201cDeath Factory.\u201d This documentary features original\u00a0 film from US archives that bring the battle back to life. It\u2019s estimated that as many as 30 thousand US and German soldiers were killed in fighting in the northern Eifel region of Germany in the autumn and winter of 1944 and 1945. Traces of the battle \u2013 old bunkers, munitions, trenches and tank tracks \u2013 are still visible even today. The scarred landscape bears witness to a little-known chapter of World War Two. The \u201cH\u00fcrtgen Forest\u201d was the last obstacle standing between US forces and the Rhine River and Ruhr. Yet the decision to advance into the thick forest in September 1944 proved to be a fatal mistake. The Americans completely miscalculated North Eifel region\u2019s rugged terrain. They became disoriented in an area the German forces, the Wehrmacht, had crisscrossed with trenches and peppered with anti-personnel mines, making the wood into a veritable fortress. Continual rain and fog, followed by snow and frigid temperatures, turned the battle into a scene of dystopian butchery. Author Ernest Hemingway spent 18 days on the front in the H\u00fcrtgen Forest. He wrote later, \u201cIt was a place where it was extremely difficult for a man to stay alive even if all he did was be there.\u201d This documentary reconstructs the stages of the battle using commentary from survivors of the clash. Among them are the well-known US photographer Tony Vaccaro, US Army veteran James K. Cullen and former Wehrmacht soldier Paul Verbeek. In addition, H\u00fcrtgen Forest residents tell of the legacy of the battle, including the threat posed by countless unexploded munitions left in the ground 75 years after the conflict in Europe ended.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><em>Related<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/2020\/05\/10\/michaels-testimony-for-ve-day-in-britain-8th-may-1945\/\">Michael\u2019s Testimony for VE Day in Britain, 8th May 1945<\/a>In &#8220;authoritarian regimes&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/18\/from-the-trenches-cattle-trucks-of-world-war-one-to-the-holocaust\/\">From the trenches &amp; cattle trucks of World War One to the Holocaust<\/a>With 1 comment<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/19\/hitler-nationalism-sacrifice-koenigsberg-and-beyond-%e2%80%a6-towards-the-tamil-tigers\/\">Hitler, Nationalism, Sacrifice: Koenigsberg and Beyond \u2026 Towards the Tamil Tigers<\/a>In &#8220;Black Tigers&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/2020\/05\/13\/german-pows-in-britain-1945-onwards\/#comments\">2 Comments<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Filed under <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/category\/accountability\/\">accountability<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/category\/authoritarian-regimes\/\">authoritarian regimes<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/category\/centre-periphery-relations\/\">centre-periphery relations<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/category\/cultural-transmission\/\">cultural transmission<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/category\/economic-processes\/\">economic processes<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/category\/education\/\">education<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/category\/governance\/\">governance<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/category\/historical-interpretation\/\">historical interpretation<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/category\/hitler\/\">Hitler<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/category\/landscape-wondrous\/\">landscape wondrous<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/category\/law-of-armed-conflict\/\">law of armed conflict<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/category\/legal-issues\/\">legal issues<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/category\/life-stories\/\">life stories<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/category\/military-strategy\/\">military strategy<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/category\/political-discourse\/\">politIcal discourse<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/category\/rehabilitation\/\">rehabilitation<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/category\/religiosity\/\">religiosity<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/category\/security\/\">security<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/category\/trauma\/\">trauma<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/category\/unusual-people\/\">unusual people<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/category\/world-events-processes\/\">world events &amp; processes<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">2 responses to \u201c<em>German POWs in Britain: 1945\u00a0Onwards<\/em>\u201d<\/span><\/h3>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Chandra Wickramasinghe<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/2020\/05\/13\/german-pows-in-britain-1945-onwards\/#comment-95297\">May 14, 2020 at 7:03 am<\/a> <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/comment\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/95297\">Edit<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Thanks Mike. Rehabilitation! They were productively employed in reconstruction work and on farmlands.What high altruism!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/2020\/05\/13\/german-pows-in-britain-1945-onwards\/?replytocom=95297#respond\">Reply<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\" start=\"2\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Pingback: <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/2020\/05\/15\/colossal-kills-on-all-fronts-in-1944-45-world-war-ii\/\">Colossal Kills on All Fronts in 1944\/45, World War II | Thuppahi&#8217;s Blog<\/a> <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/comment\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/95703\">Edit<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German POWs in Britain: 1945 Onwards-by Michael Roberts (2\/5) Timewatch the Germans we Kept World War II With the wars end many prisoners were soon on their way back home but a program of re-education was devised to supposedly prepare the prisoners for a new life in a different Germany. 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