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The greatest WWI escape story from Germany's most notorious prisoner-of-war camp. There have been many accounts of escape during the Second World War -- stories of brave, daring, resourceful prisoners of war desperate to break out of their confines. But what about POWs of the First World War? Escape attempts did take place in WWI; their stories just haven't been told or have long been forgotten. But now, Escape from Germany tells the story of the greatest POW break-out of the First World War, from Holzminden -- the most escape-proof prison. In terms of both numbers who escaped from the camp and those who crossed the border safely, this was the greatest escape of this period. This is an era that, in its beliefs and attitudes, seems impossibly remote from the society in which we now live. It was a world where a gentleman's honour was his most prized possession, where class and rank dictated a soldier's status in prison, and where it was considered the duty of POW to escape if he could, though also a cardinal offence in the prison camps to attempt to do so. In this book, Neil Hanson also takes us through the other escape attempts from the prison, which range from the daring to the eccentric and the downright farcical. These are stories of daring, resourcefulness and persistence. These were men who allowed no obstacle, however huge, to deter them, and who with quick wit and apparently inexhaustible good humour, performed miracles of improvisation, adaptation, courage and endurance. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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As in WW II, the blockade of Europe and specifically Germany led to shortages of everything including food. Thus it is understandable that Germany found it difficult to properly feed 1000's of prisoners when it could not feed its own people. The Red Cross packages and family provided parcels sent by POW's families kept the prisoners alive and apparently many of their guards who stole from the packages.
This book concentrates on the story of Holzminden Prison Camp which was run by a psychopath named Hauptmann Karl "Milwaukee Bill" Niemeyer described by someone as the personification of hate. His treatment of the POW's was cruel and inhuman and what we saw repeated twenty years later under the Nazi regime in WW II.
The title of the book is about a mass escape from this prison which became known as the first Great Escape. The ingenuity of the men to overcome so many difficulties in digging the tunnel and keeping it a secret for such a long period of time is amazing. After the escape, the Germans forced prisoners to did up the tunnel so they could discover where the entrance to it was because the prisoners had hidden it so completely the Germans were unable to find it. ( )