German PoW Leaves Money to Scottish Village

[Laurie]

A German ex-PoW has left nearly hlf a million dollars to the Scottish village where he was held because they were kind to him.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-38184935

Unusually, he actually admitted to being a committed Nazi who saw Hitler as a Messiah.

 

[Wilberforce]

My husband used to tell me about the POW who were in his hometown which was Aberdeen, they didn't seem to be tightly locked up many had jobs and it was said they didn't try to escape because they didn't want to go back

 

[Laurie]

It was a fairly re;axed regime in the UK and we had hundreds of Italian prisoners working on local farms, never escorted by more than half a dozen or so girds.

We had a high ranking prisoner complex near us, and I can remember my father trying to explain about parole and military courtesy when I was shocked by British sentries presenting arms as the prisoners walked in and out of the fates quite freely!