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Old 4th Jul 2012, 10:31
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Chugalug2
 
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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 think that the treatment accorded to BC POWs, Jewish or otherwise, varied right from the moment of capture depending on into whose hands they fell. If it were by a mob or by the Gestapo then they were treated with equal status no matter what their faith, and lynched! Their best hope was to fall into the hands of the Luftwaffe at the earliest opportunity who AFAIK treated them all as equals and afforded them the protection of the Geneva Convention. There is of course a famous story of USAAF crew being removed from a Concentration Camp and the SS by a visiting Luftwaffe officer.
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