POW Olympics WWII

May 15, 2018 5:56 PM

Woldenburg POW camp managed to hold an olympics, mostly for officers.
posted by MovableBookLady (4 comments total)

Under the Geneva convention officers didn't have to work, enlisted POWs were probably busy working in the camp factory
posted by mbo at 6:48 PM on May 15, 2018 [2 favorites]

(except of course for the enlisted POWs who are required by the Geneva Convention to be assigned as orderlies to the POW officers ... because, well, you know how hard it is to get the right sort of help when you're in a POW camp)
posted by mbo at 6:53 PM on May 15, 2018 [3 favorites]

It's like that one episode of M*A*S*H.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 8:43 PM on May 15, 2018

I am always so, so weirded out by the way nearly every military in the world so precisely replicates the British class system. I know for a lot of the western militaries it's because they were literally created by the British or descendent from military systems that were, but it's so damn universal.
posted by tavella at 10:46 AM on May 17, 2018