Tag: PoWs

Free Download Richard Van Emden, "Prisoners of the Kaiser (The Last Pows of the Great War)"
English | 2009 | pages: 208 | ISBN: 1848840780, 0850527341 | EPUB | 16,1 mb
Drawing on the memories of the last surviving prisoners of the 1914-1918 war, this book tells the dramatic story of life as a POW in Germany. Stories include the shock of capture on the Western Front, to the grind of daily life in imprisonment in Germany. Veterans recall work in salt mines, punishments, and escape attempts, as well as the torture of starvation and the relief at their eventual release. Vivid stories are told using over 200 photographs and illustrations, almost all never published before.

Free Download Soldiers and Slaves: American POWs Trapped by the Nazis’ Final Gamble (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0009RFWPW | 2005 | 11 hours and 20 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 618 MB
Author: Roger Cohen
Narrator: Michael Prichard
In February 1945, 350 American POWs captured earlier at the Battle of the Bulge or elsewhere in Europe were singled out by the Nazis because they were Jews or were thought to resemble Jews. They were transported in cattle cars to Berga, a concentration camp in eastern Germany, and put to work as slave laborers, mining tunnels for a planned underground synthetic-fuel factory. This was the only incident of its kind during World War II. Starved and brutalized, the GIs were denied their rights as prisoners of war, their ordeal culminating in a death march that was halted by liberation near the Czech border. Twenty percent of these soldiers, more than 70 of them, perished.