Hitler's British Slaves
“This is not what they have been prepared for – they are trained to fight and defeat the enemy, not for capitulation. Between 1940 and 1945 almost 200,000 British and Commonwealth servicemen fell into the hands of the enemy. In the early war years, with defeats in Norway, France, Greece, Crete and North Africa, streams of once proud soldiers made their way into captivity. Even once the Allies were advancing through Sicily, Italy and north-west Europe there would be a steady stream of new prisone...rs taking their places in the cold, damp huts of the Stalags and their work camps. Usually exhausted, dishevelled, hungry and thirsty, they had reached the end of their physical and mental endurance. Whether through the fields of France, across the sands of the desert, the parched hillsides of Crete or the shattered villas of Arnhem, they raised their hands and shuffled off to an uncertain future.The first major influx of prisoners came with the shock defeat of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in France in May and June 1940.MoreLess
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