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Old 08-31-15, 11:22 AM   #151
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ISBN 978-0-7537-2936-6 (Octopus Books)

This is "The Great Escape" story recounted by one of the less famous participants.
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That's neat. I always like these famous stories retold from another persons perspective.
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I read this not too long ago. One of the Doolittle pow's survived hellish conditions but had a chance to read the bible while in solitaire. Incredibly, he vowed to return to Japan as a missionary and that's exactly what he did. I'm not much for religion but found this a pretty amazing book to read.
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Default LEGO PRISONERS OF WAR

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Old 05-22-16, 12:31 PM   #155
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Default Missing Movie

I remember picking up a DVD at Tesco recently (I put it back to wait until the price comes down) called Prisoner of War, and starring Jeff Goldblum as the prisoner and Willem Dafoe as the Nazi Kommandant.

Now, searching online, I can find no mention of this movie anywhere; it's not in Jeff Goldblum's movie bibliography and neither is it in Willem Dafoe's (movies.com). Did I dream it?
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Were are you searching? A google of "jeff goldblum prisoner of war" yielded this:



https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prisoner-Wa.../dp/B01CUD72DC

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Were are you searching? A google of "jeff goldblum prisoner of war" yielded this:


Maybe he dreamed about searching for it unsuccessfully?
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Thanks guys but that's crazy... the first thing I searched for was "jeff goldblum prisoner of war movie"

Found it now...

Anyway, what I was going to say was that, in the correct use of the phrase, civilians interned by the Germans in the death camps (or anywhere else for that matter) were not technically 'prisoners of war'; that term should, as I understand it, only be applied to military personnel, and many ex prisoners seeking compensation payable to "Prisoners of War" have had to prove their former status as such before receiving payment.

A good point for debate, to be sure, but I haven't watched this film yet, so it remains to be seen (see what I did there?)
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A good point for debate, to be sure, but I haven't watched this film yet, so it remains to be seen (see what I did there?)
"He that would pun would pick a pocket" but I guess it's the "lesser of of two weevils".
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Old 09-29-16, 06:13 AM   #160
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"Treblinka Survivor" by Mark Smith

The History Press; ISBN no. 978 0 7524 5618 8

Mark Smith's engrossing story of his attempt to discover why the father of a childhood friend took his own life by jumping off a bridge in Scotland, fifty years after he'd finally escaped from perhaps the most horrific nightmare visited on human beings by the Nazis. Again, perhaps not strictly within the remit of my thread, for Treblinka was no PoW camp... it was far worse.
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Again, perhaps not strictly within the remit of my thread, for Treblinka was no PoW camp... it was far worse.
IIRC there were plenty of Soviet POW's run through there.
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Yes, but to be exterminated rather than incarcerated.
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Yes, but to be exterminated rather than incarcerated.

That was pretty much the story for all Soviet POW's of the Germans, and vice versa. But there were POW survivors I thought.
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There was a nearby penal camp, so perhaps Russian PoW's were among parties brought in from there for whatever reason; looking back through the book I can find no mention of Russians except among the various nationalities of civilian prisoners.

But the fact is, Treblinka was conceived as an extermination camp, along with Belzec and Sobibor, so I would say not a PoW camp.
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Default P.O.W. TV series 2014

Anyone seen this? I only just discovered it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.O.W._(TV_series)
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