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...include you in a prisoner swap could you decline to go?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Most cdnt wait to swap ( My father reached Rouen and then "it was all off" as a result of reports of maltreatment of german prisoners in Persia)
I think if you wanted to stay when the officer "you are all set" - I think you said as early as poss - No thank you sir
Douglas Bader wd not allow his batman to be repatriated - "a skivvie you are and a skivvie you will stay !"
I can't think of a reason any prisoner would decline to go.
think harder: return of the cossacks to Russia 1945
The betrayal of Yalta - last time I mentioned this I really was flooded wiv " what Yalta den" " Does he mean Malta and cant spell?"
They all went to Gulags ( the lucky ones) or a firing squad. and yes my father was caught up in this as a POW in the east. No one wanted to be liberated by the Russians
and now.... early in the Ukraine war - the Yukes wd ring up a Russians mother and say - take a bus and come and collect him.
o god this is AB poison - someone whose father had personal experience
Hi sands you got their before me
Does this count? after the disastrous Syracusan expedition ( 400BC) any Greek POW who ( they were enslaved, no Geneva convention then!) cd quote a line of Aeschylus was allowed to go home( I think)
The returnees wd queue up outside his house to thank him.
( impossibly tortured analogy just put in to bait the mods)
weren't captured Russian soldiers in WW2 sent to the gulags as traitors on returning home...
yes they were - there were a lot of DPs ( displaced persons) in Darzett ( aaaargh) in the late forties , fifties so the people of Beaminster and Bridport are just about the only ones with the group memory of this disgraceful episode.
oh yeah god one - I have written of him before, said he had joined the Red Army, been captured, joined the German Army..... christ how come you are still alive ?
He walked from ( luneberg heath) to Trst ( Trieste) ! and then across Italy and France and managed to get to Blighty ( and Darzett - aaarh)
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