// It's just a different aspect to the Auschwitz story. I think Alf died in 2005.//
the allies made if very clear that if POWs ended up in concentration camps, they would shoot those involved
Alfs story is unclear- as an enemy combattant he would know he could not assist the German war effort without risking a court martial on liberation ....(English see)
and loss of his pension rights. ( Kings Regulations)
nonetheless in the chaotic conditions in 1945, the survivors of the Great Escape were to be found ins Saxenhausen and a few others in Mauthausen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauthausen-Gusen_concentration_camp#Liberation_and_post-war_heritage
scroll down to liberation s4
the banner in thpanith - saludan las furezas che liberan etc
was sewn by some really unlucky international brigade deportados
who had gone form Bargelona/burgos into France and were interned 1936, by Laval probably ( only prime minister to be shot for treason), further interned by the Vichy govt., 1940 and were found by the Germans after their occupation of the south in 1943 and taken off to Mauthausen to be liberated by the americans in 1945
Lest we forget - or never knew in the first place