BRITISH PRISONERS
KINDLY TREATED BY POLES THEMSELVES IN GREAT NEED LONDON, October 29. Of the 3600 war prisoners who reached Great Britain from Germany on October 25, the great majority travelled direct from internment camps in Poland. They had learnt quite a few Polish words and spoke in glowing terms of the kindness and cordiality shown to them by Poles. Many British prisoners became very friendly with interned Polish military prisoners, who unfortunately were later given their freedom only to be rearrested as civilians and sent back to Germany 1 - to work in war factories. Frequently Poles, although possessing very little themselves, threw food and various articles to the British prisoners over the barbed wire fence. . When regulations became much stricter, Polish children braving the brutality of German guards, crawled under the barbed wire to throw food to the British prisoners. The unconquerable spirit of the Poles is remarkable in spite of the brutality of the German occupying forces.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 December 1943, Page 6
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