Fighting Against Their Own Country

The prisoners, I'll tell you what they were like. They were glad because, I hate to say it, but an awful lot of them were Dutchmen. The young fellows that had joined up and fought against their own country because they were offered good meals, a nice uniform and a hope of winning the war which looked good for them. So there was a lot of them in it. So when you had a bunch of prisoners and there was probably 10 percent of them there German and 90 percent Dutch that's a hard thing to think about. But they were, as I say, young, easily persuaded, nice uniform, lots of women and everything and the very best of everything and treated pretty well, so there was a good shot of them that fought against their own country. Hard to believe.