UK, Ireland /
POLES SUPERIOR TO BRITS? [260]
forgive me an unapropriate metaphore but comparing to this german camps were like holiday resorts
When I was a child we had neighbours who had been in Japanese POW camps, one woman was a child when she, her mother and siblings were put into a camp, she was deaf in both ears as a result of a Japanese soldier beating her across the head with a rifle, her hair had turned completely white at the age of 13 because of what she had suffered, she even witnessed them pour petrol over her 10 year old brother when he was ill, because they said he was infectious and the only way to eradicate it was with fire, someone stepped in saved the boy at the last minute. another neighbour had been a soldier in the POW camp, he wasn't around much as they would regularly take him off to the psychiatric hospital, but I do remember one occasion he was allowed home, his teenage daughter came to our house so she could eat an apple, the sound of an apple being bitten into reminded him of a whip being cracked. I've heard my father and grandfather talk about men they knew coming back in a terrible physical and mental condition after being in Jap camps