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prisoner in Poland
Ben Macintyre has a great book about a British POW/spy in Poland. Colditz and other nazi pow camps in Poland were absolutely hellish. Brits were treated relatively well, esp. vs. Eastern Europeans who were received extreme abuse, but it would’ve taken real mettle to survive there without turn-coating or cracking mentally.
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@Chalfie
That’s quite a thing to have to cope with.
I could never really understand it all: caught in france, prisoner in Poland, escaped (?) and ends up in Yugoslavia, ends up home in the north east.
It sounds fantastical tbh. But I never got to speak to him much. He was dead by the time I was 15.