The Lost Airmen of Buchenwald

Here’s a long blog post published on the 11th, mainly about Buchenwald survivor Frank Kirby Cowan from Arkansas. It notes that a second doco has recently been presented.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/11/1254732/-The-Airmen-of-Buchenwald-A-Veteran-s-Day-Remembrance

I saw the program, it was ugly the way the allied aircrew members were subjected to while in captivity. What horrified me the most was the way the US POWs were treated when they got home in the USA! Keeping secrets of what happened to them, no mention made by the US Government, no credit of what they endured as POWs. No mention was made in war crimes tribunal. Just one of the many attrosities former US POWs recieved when they got back to the USA!

A good book which touches on this subject.is “In the Shadows of War” by Thomas Childers. It seems that the Germans were pretty brutal with evaders who were not in uniform.
http://www.amazon.com/Shadows-War-American-Odyssey-Occupied/dp/0805057536/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1384182928&sr=1-1&keywords=thomas+childers

Childers also wrote “Wings of Morning,” about the last US bomber crew shot down in Europe. The latter was one of a handful of books that inspired me to begin researching and writing up my Dad’s war experiences in the U.S. Navy.

Bob

I don’t know how often it happened, but it wasn’t wholly isolated, as some of the Kregies from LuftIII ended-up in Sachenhausen – for a time at least. Scary stuff.

Wasn’t aware of this. Must keep an eye out for it coming around again on tv. An incredible story.

This film (although it may have been a different edit) was shown in NZ in March last year. Website at http://www.lostairmen.com/

I started watching it and was fascinated, but it ran too late to do it justice so it’s on disc to watch today. There certainly did seem to be a lot of original material in there.

Moggy