I thoroughly enjoyed the programme. I had to miss the last 15 minutes so I don't know if this point was covered, but the ex air gunner called Wiseman was pretty obviously Jewish, and he had become a POW at some stage. What sort of treatment did Jewish POWs receive at the hands of the Germans, or were they given equal status with their non-Jewish fellow prisoners? I have always thought it was incredibly brave for a Jew to volunteer for aircrew, when in addition to the obvious dangers involved in flying on ops, there was the big unknown as to how you were going to be treated if you were taken prisoner.
Speaking as someone whose worst experience during six years of flying was discovering that the in-flight rations had been left behind, I found the programme totally humbling.
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