soc.history.war.world-war-ii

"David Thornley" wrote in message
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> In article ,



> As I said, liberating one's fellow soldiers held by the enemy
> is a good thing in itself, regardless of what you say. Dad
> seemed to have been pleased to be liberated,

As was my uncle, who was at Luft III and as the
Russians were getting near, the prisoners was evacuated to the west.
I have read accounts of the misery of that forced
march, but my uncle only said that it was his
worst experience of the war. Worse than jumping from
a burning Halifax.