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

by SeanLongden (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $17.94

  
  The untold story of life in the allied camps under the
  
  
  Nazi's.
  
  
  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.