THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT PRISONERS OF WAR
Added on: 4th May 2016
SEVERAL AMERICAN POWS WERE IN HIROSHIMA
WHEN THE BOMB FELL. 23 DIED.
IN 1966, JEREMIAH DENTON, A POW IN VIETNAM
BLINKED THE WORD "TORTURE" IN MORSE CODE
DURING A FORCED TV INTERVIEW
BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR WERE KNOWN FOR
BEING QUITE CHEEKY DURING WWII. OFTEN THEY
WOULD GET THEIR GUARDS ARRESTED DUE TO
FILING FAKE REPORTS AGAINST THEM
THE LAST WWII POW TO BE SENT HOME WAS AN
HUNGARIAN FOUND LIVING IN A RUSSIAN PSYCH WARD
IN 2000
IN 1944 THE JAPANESE ORCHESTRATED ONE OF THE
BIGGEST PRISON BREAKS IN HISTORY WHEN
HUNDREDS OF POWS TRIED TO BREAK OUT OF
AN AUSTRALIAN CAMP
THE JAPANESE THOUGHT THE AUSTRALIANS WERE
WEAK BECAUSE THEY TREATED PRISONERS TOO WELL
A BRITISH POW ONCE HID A RADIO SO WELL THAT
WHEN HE VISITED THE CAMP OVER 60 YEARS LATER
THE RADIO WAS STILL WHERE HE HAD LEFT IT
DURING WWII, CAPTURED GERMAN OFFICERS WERE
ALLOWED TO LIVE IN LUXURY IN BRITAIN. THIS WAS
DONE TO MAKE THEM FEEL COMFORTABLE BECAUSE
UNBEKNOWNST TO THEM, THEY WERE BEING
LISTENED TO CONSTANTLY. NUMEROUS GERMAN
SECRETS WERE DISCOVERED IN THIS WAY
HORACE GREASLEY, A BRITISH SOLDIER, ESCAPED
AND RE-ENTERED A POW CAMP MORE THAN
200 TIMES BECAUSE HE FELL IN LOVE WITH THE
DAUGHTER OF THE CAMP'S DIRECTOR.
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