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> shooting dead American soldiers they found inside Switzerland who had escaped from German POW camps Prisoners of war were treated really bad in Switzerland.
by lwkl 5y ago
> shooting dead American soldiers they found inside Switzerland who had escaped from German POW camps
Prisoners of war were treated really bad in Switzerland. Wikipedia has detailed article about the Wauwilermoss internment camp [1] and links to additional literature. There was a SRF Dok report on this but sadly it's no longer available.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wauwilermoos_internment_camp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wauwilermoos_internment_camp
- microtherion 5y agoThe commander of that camp was sentenced to 3+ years in prison after the war, and some of the inhuman behaviour mentioned in the wikipedia article was that internees were held for 75 days without a proper trial. Meanwhile, the US is actively holding POWs without a trial for nearly 20 years: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/guantanamo-bay-detainees.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/guantanamo-bay-d... — and the idea of accountability for US law enforcement / detention officials is considered tantamount to treason. As for "worse than a German POW camp", as claimed by some US sources in the wikipedia article... nope. Even disregarding the stark discrepancy between the treatment of western allied soldiers and Russian POWs in German camps (of the latter, more than half died in the camps, many murdered outright), treatment of Western POWs was not all that great. As disgraceful as the conditions at Wauwilermoos for escapees from other POW camps were, this is what could have faced them in a German camp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_Luft_III_murders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_Luft_III_murders