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[Flying10uk]

There use to be a German living just down the road, less than half a mile away from where I am now, who came to the U.K. as a P.O.W. and never did go back to Germany because he liked living here. Or, as he use to say "I was treated so badly by the British as a P.O.W. I decided to stay". I believe that quite a few ex German P.O.W.s stayed on in the U.K. after the war, arriving with absolutely nothing, but ending up making a life for themselves.

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[browningautorifle]

a few ex German P.O.W.s stayed on

A man I still know is second generation Canadian as his dad was Fallschirmjäger ... I ran parallel with him in service time... His dad was captured and sent to internment camp at Lethbridge Alberta to finish out the war. He worked on farms and such, learning English and what the farmland here was like. When he was force repatriated, as they all were, he grabbed his girl and returned to Canada on the same ship as it sailed back. He built a life and lived so close to the same place he could stand on his roof and point out the old POW camp. His son was second gen Para as well...I think his dad is still living. I have a similar story about a Tiger tank commander...and his son.