"Are We Meant to Share This for a Week?" — German POW Stunned by British Food Rations скачать в хорошем качестве

"Are We Meant to Share This for a Week?" — German POW Stunned by British Food Rations

June 1944. The beaches of Normandy were soaked in blood and salt water, and the air smelled like burning metal and wet sand. Allied forces had just stormed the coastline in the largest sea invasion the world had ever seen. Over one hundred and fifty thousand soldiers had crossed the English Channel in a single day. And in the chaos that followed, tens of thousands of German soldiers found themselves with their hands in the air, surrendering to an enemy they had been told was weak and nearly defeated. A starving German soldier is captured on the beaches of Normandy and shipped to a British POW camp. When they hand him a ration tin packed with meat, bread, butter, jam and tea, he turns to the man next to him and asks "are we meant to share this for a week?" Turns out it was just one day's food. For one man. His own army hadn't fed him that well in months. This is the story of what happened when a soldier raised on propaganda discovered that the enemy he was told was broken and starving was actually feeding its prisoners better than Germany fed its own troops. From Christmas pudding behind barbed wire to working on an English farm, this is one of those WW2 stories they never taught you in school. Some of my sources in this video: https://www.ww2online.org/image/germa... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_... https://www.historyhit.com/how-were-p... https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/herit... https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war... https://onview.lib.wvu.edu/catalog/04...