The enemy soldiers left in Britain after VE Day

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Half a million troops came to Britain as prisoners, but what happened to them after the war ended?

Thousands of Italian prisoners started to arrive in Britain after victories in 1941.

"When the Red Cross asked to know how many camps there were, the government responded they had no idea."Strict rules about prisoners meeting locals and land army girls were quickly relaxed The German prisoners, however, were for a long time regarded as more dangerous and the hardened Nazis were identified and sent to camps in the US, Canada or Scotland.

Hans Behrens, who was still a teenager at the time, was invited for Christmas dinner by a family in Burgess Hill, Sussex, with whom he became firm friends."I thought about going back to Germany all the time. I wanted to go home, but the more I got to know England the less I wanted to go back.He eventually settled and set up a firm importing German electronics into Britain.Many of the 25,000 Germans who elected to stay in Britain did so after finding wives and girlfriends.

 

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We gave them all new houses and put them on benefits. 😂😂😂😂

...have been carrying on their gruesome, dreadful work on biology? just pulling your leg...off.

They weren’t the “enemy” after VE Day.

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