Sympathy for the Enemy
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Sympathy for the Enemy
There was one time we were up on the Zuiderzee searching the
German troops, as they were coming back and we would search
them and take all everything away from them, their arms and
stuff, and that’s the way it was. But to tell you the truth,
I felt sorry for a lot of them because a lot of them were
barefooted you know, they were up along the Zuiderzee for so
long after the war was over. And then they started rounding
them up and brought them back through Holland and that, but we
were searching them. Some of them had their poor feet wrapped
in sacks and stuff like that, I felt really, felt sorry for them.
And most of the guys were, felt the same as I did.
But, I mean the guys were prisoners of war, you couldn’t do
anything else could you? I mean it’s a shame, but all they
did was walk, walk and walk and more walking. Then after that
finished up there then I went down to Apeldoorn, a town in
Holland and I did guard duty in the REME work shops down there.
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