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WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT PRISONERS OF WAR

Added on: 23rd Jul 2016

 

GERMAN POWS IN THE UNITED STATES HAD BEEN

SO IMPRESSED DURING THEIR INCARCERATION

THAT MANY OF THEM RETURNED TO THE

US AFTER THE WAR

German POWs in the United States had been so impressed during their incarceration that many of them returned to the US after the war

 

 

WHILE BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY'S DAD WAS A POW

IN JAPAN, HE MADE SUNDIALS SO HE COULD FIGURE

OUT THE LATITUDE OF THE CAMP

While Bill Nye the Science Guy's dad was a POW in Japan, he made sundials so he could figure out the latitude of the camp

 

 

POWS IN JAPAN WOULD HOLD THEIR FARTS UNTIL THEY

WERE MADE TO BOW TO A STATUE OF THE EMPEROR

POWs in Japan would hold their farts until they were made to bow to a statue of the emperor

 

 

ROBERT CAMPBELL WAS A BRITISH POW WHO WAS

CAPTURED BY THE GERMANS DURING WWI

BUT FREED TO GO SEE HIS DYING MOTHER. HE

RETURNED TO THE CAMP BECAUSE HE HAD

GIVEN HIS WORD THAT HE WOULD RETURN

(HE WAS AFRAID THAT IF HE DIDN'T RETURN

THEN OTHER SOLDIERS WOULD BE DENIED

SUCH REQUESTS)

Robert Campbell was a British POW who was capture by the Germans during WWI but freed to go see his dying mother. He returned to the camp because he had given his word that he would return

 

 

DURING WWII, JUDY WAS A CANINE POW WHO WAS

SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR PROTECTING HER

FELLOW INMATES FROM BEATINGS. SHE ESCAPED

AND HID IN THE JUNGLES OF SUMATRA UNTIL

THE END OF THE WAR WHEN SHE WAS FOUND.

SHE RECEIVED A MEDAL FOR HER ACTIONS

During WWII, Judy was a canine POW who was sentenced to death for protecting her fellow inmates from beatings. She escaped and hid in the jungles of Sumatra until the end of the war when she was found. She received a medal for her actions.

 

 

HITLER WAS SO IMPRESSED BY THE GREEK

RESISTANCE THAT HE ORDERED ALL GREEK

POWS TO BE RELEASED

Hitler was so impressed by the Greek resistance that he ordered all Greek POWs to be released

 

 

BETWEEN 1970 AND 1973 FOUR ISRAELI POWS

TRANSLATED THE HOBBIT FROM ENGLISH TO

HEBREW WHILE THEY WERE IN AN EGYPTIAN PRISON.

IT IS STILL CONSIDERED THE BEST HEBREW

TRANSLATION OF THE BOOK

Between 1970 and 1973 four Israeli POWs translated The Hobbit from English to Hebrew while they were in an Egyptian prison. It is still considered the best Hebrew translation of the book

 

 

BRITISH POWS THAT WERE HELD IN COLDITZ CASTLE

TRIED TO TUNNEL OUT BUT INSTEAD ENDED UP IN

A GERMAN OFFICER'S WINE CELLAR. THEY DRANK

ALL OF HIS WINE, URINATED IN THE BOTTLES

AND PUT THEM BACK ON THE SHELVES

British POWs that were held in Colditz Castle tried to tunnel out but instead ended up in a German officer's wine cellar. They drank all of his wine, urinated in the bottles, and put them back on the shelves

 


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