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Description
Colonel Merritt reflects on the events at the POW camp as the war neared an end.
Transcription
We were in the area of an American Army and they, they sent parties who were ahead of their main bodies. And they did a very good job of whisking us out of the camp, which by the time they were, they got there, conditions in the camp had gone down like that. And...not through any fault of the Germans but through the general situation. There was no one picking up the...it was like, as if there was a strike. There was no one picking up the refuse or, and no one delivering the food and all that kind of...And so the Americans dealt with that by sending a lot of trucks and picking us up and taking us to an airfield near Brussels, and then transferring us into air crafts. And, this was at the end of the war you see.