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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;the blacksmith, post: 9515921, member: 20148&quot;]Amazing story to that box!</p><p>I think that some camps were easier, if such a place can be, than others. The Russian POW&#039;s here were used to work the fields&nbsp; and do building work etc. Some, unfortunately, were worked to death building Hitlers &#039;Atlantic Wall&#039; along the West coast. the Gun batteries there still survive, some with their guns still in situ.</p><p>But here, the Russian workers had the possibilty to trade such small items with the locals for extra food, cigarettes, milk etc.etc. and gernerally, they were fairly well treated here. A far cry from Neuengamme, or Bergen Belsen, which my father was amongst the first allied soldiers into in April 1945.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, the Soviet POW&#039;s when they were repatriated, then had to undergo a trial by their own side, and many of them spent years in Gulags, because they had allowed themselves to be taken prisoner, rather than dying gloriously for Stalin!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie19" alt=":banghead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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