disgustinng the government told them to shut up.

Glad their story is being told even if it took decades.

I'd never heard it either and that article is from 2011!!
Thanks for sharing.

Adding sawdust to a POW's meal must have been in a German military cookbook. I had a relative that was captured at Anzio and said he was fed meals laced with sawdust many times while in a stalag. Dealt with an irritated eso****us the rest of his life.

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Adding sawdust to a POW's meal must have been in a German military cookbook. I had a relative that was captured at Anzio and said he was fed meals laced with sawdust many times while in a stalag.

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My father was in Stalag Luft 1. The last few months of the war they received one loaf of bread a day for their barracks to be split among everyone in that barracks He said it was half black bread, half sawdust. He weighed less than 100 pounds when he got back to France a few weeks after being liberated by the Red Army (that's another story).

They had it bad, but not nearly as bad as those airmen in the Buchenwald article aalan94 posted. Thanks for posting it BTW, I had never heard of this. How awful.

An old guy who died recently that attended the same church we did was a pow in a German prisoner camp.

When his camp was liberated he said he was beyond thankful that the Americans liberated it and not the Russians. He said the Russians were basically animals and it would have been a death sentence to have had them come into the camp.

I seem to remember hearing of this and while not common it seems Allied POWs wound up on concentration camps. I remember reading of some Brits who ended up in Aushwitz, or at least one of the subcamps, and other Americans who ended up in Mauthausen.

I still would have rather been captured by the Germans than the Japanese though.