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Originally Posted by CCIP
Wow, quite the discovery. Must have been rather eerie.
Henke's story is pretty sad. War is war, but he really was set up and treated unfairly - can't blame him for thinking he had no choice to save his honour there, except to get himself shot.
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Make no mistake: I would gladly have been part of an Allied DD crew during WW2, and ruthlessly taken part in the War of the Atlantic against the u-boats. However, once he was a POW, the way Henke was treated was way out of bounds. I thought it was Name, Rank, and Serial Number. That was all you were obligated to say once taken prisoner.