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At least the prisoners in Britain weren’t
mistreated and were fed properly unlike a great many of our own POW’s.
Not many if any tried to escape either. I do remember seeing a film at Scholes Pictures of a German pilot “ The One That Got Away” …The Actor was very blond and good looking. Can’t remember his name.

This was taken in the Moor Road area of Orrell, all around where the road bridge over the M58 is now.

I thought it may be in that area with the council houses in the background. Thanks for confirming it.

Veronica, Hardy Kruger.

They do look healthy and happy, and as you say Veronica treated fairly, a man near us who died recently had been a PoW of the Japanese, and had suffered ill health all his life from the awful treatment when incarcerated.

It is a good film and I've seen it on TV a couple of times, https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b226786

Network was selling this film amongst many others on too DVD and Blu Ray, however they have ceased trading. A great shame really as they did transfer many of the old films and TV shows onto DVD, and very often their prices were well below that from retailers. They also transferred Gerry and Sylvia Anderson TV and film series onto DVD. https://www.gerryanderson.com/farewell-to-network-celebrating-25-years-of-archive-tv-film-releases/#:~:text=On%20May%2031st%202023,the%20disappearance%20of%20their%20website.

That’s right B. I’ve seen it a couple of times since. Hardy Kruger. A true story of the only German to escape from Britain. Oberleutnant Franz von Werra shot down in 1940.

They do look like POW.I worked years ago with an Austrian who was POW and finished up over here doing bomb disposal around London but was sent up to Liverpool.He married a girl from Leigh.He was very interesting to talk to.

Yes there was a relative in my family as well Cyril. The ex POW’s weren’t treated very well when they came home either…they just had to get on with it as if nothing bad had happened and remember for the rest of their lives the cruelty they endured. We shouldn’t forget them either …

I too had an uncle who fought in the far east.When he came home he had bad mental issues and died when he was 56.

A lot of Germans stayed behind after the war and who could blame them? Bert Trautman was the famous one. The documentary made about him a few years ago was really interesting. You saw another side with the verbal abuse that he had to put up with but he integrated very well. Especially with his football career.

They do look like POW.I worked years ago with an Austrian who was POW and finished up over here doing bomb disposal around London but was sent up to Liverpool.He married a girl from Leigh.He was very interesting to talk to.

As I said yesterday, but it's not been posted - the houses in the background are on Latham Lane.

Mine seem to get posted twice quite regularly Bruce.