German WWII Prisoners of War Manual - English Translation
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Kriegsgefangene - Prisoners of War. Produced by the High Command of the German Armed Forces. This booklet starts with details about how the Alliance (France, Belgium, and England) in WWI turned the German prisoners of war into a propaganda tool, took advantage of them and the German government, and used their own POWs in German camps as instruments for sowing dissention in the German fatherland. Eventually it gets around to explaining the proper technique and methods used for German POWs to escape, but the main focus of this manual is to incite the German population at the start of WWII into hatred and wariness of foreign prisoners and educate them about the damage that has been done to Germany in both world wars. Interesting reading, but this is not a manual simply about how the Germans were supposed to behave in captivity. Details include French statements about how the French POWs are to burn, destroy, and escape whenever possible, and how the German POWs gave manufacturing secrets to the enemy while working for them.
While it was produced and issued by the High Command of the German Armed Forces, it is not a military manual in the usual sense, rather more of a propaganda/military manual for general circulation among the troops to indoctrinate them to the despicable acts committed by foreigners and comparisons to the honorable German POW behavior. It includes several illustrations of contraband sent to POW camps in Germany. 60 pages, 5.5w x 8.5h.
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