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
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
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)
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
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
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