There were exceptions, though, notably the transfer of American PoWs from Stalag IX-B to the slave labour camp at Berga. Most of them were Jewish, and around 20 per cent of them died in just 50 days.
Wasnt there a docu-drama about that a few years ago? Remember seeing something on one of the Sky ch’s ?
On the eastern front it was a different tale. The Soviet Union had not signed up to the Geneva Convention and from the Nazi point of view that gave them free rein to do what they liked with Soviet PoWs (and vice versa). So many of them died in camps at German hands that the percentage of Jews is hardly relevant. They all suffered horribly, and the Jews possibly more than most.
I have just finished reading “Boldness be my friend ” by Richard Pape which gives some really horrendous images of what it was like in some Russian POW camps.
But it wasnt just the Nazi’s , I didnt know untill a few years ago that American POW’s “liberated” by the Russians were held back by them at the end of the war and some never made it home.
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