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Castrophal order sent prisoners to their death
Filed Under (Historia) by Targenor on 08-05-2010
Tagged Under : Acording, British, goverment, POW, surrenderd
Acording to a new book, it was a misstake that where behind the death of British prisoner of war during the second world war.
In 1943 the British goverment secret service MI9 gave the order to 50.000 British POW to stay in their prisoncamps in Italy after Italy surrenderd. About one day later the Germans invaded Italy and sent the prisoners to Poland and Germany where thousands of them died.
Tom Carver says in his book that MI9 never had been placed infor a such situation where thousands of POW where escaping at the same time, and therefore they thougt it was better that the POW stayed untill the allied rescued them. Certain camps where even guarded by British guards to make sure no one was escaping. When the Germans occupied the country they where suprised that so many POW still was in the prisons. About 2.500 of the 50.000 british POW where killed in German prison.
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