Surrendered and Captured
The Dieppe Raid
Surrendered and Captured
Transcript
We only marched a few miles and ended up
in a giant building where we all laid down
and tried to rest and then they took us
by train to Dieppe, that’s in Germany near
Poland and that’s where we ended up – VIII-B
That’s the number of the camp,
Stalag VIII-B. That’s what they called it.
Interviewer: As I sit here with you today,
you can help me understand.
You became a prisoner of war. (I did.)
Take us through that.
What was it like you mean? (Ya.)
It was horrible. I guess it’s better than dying
but it’s – a thing you don’t wanna do is surrender.
But we did and they shipped us back to Germany.
So we were there for almost three years and
that wasn’t too bad except you’re always hungry
and that. Other than that it was okay.
Interviewer: What about the living conditions?
They have great barracks, maybe 300 men in
one so that’s the way you lived, ya.
And then there was work parties,
people went out to work, some of them.
And other than that, you just tried to
get some food. That was the big thing there
because the Red Cross only came once a month.
And that was a feast.
That was like a feast because you had two men
split that parcel. That was great.
And right next door we had Russians,
little kids and everything in there and we used to
throw them over anything we could for food but
that wasn’t very good either.
They’d trample each other.
That wasn’t a good idea either.
Description
Mr. Stanley recalls his days as a POW.
Meta Data
- Medium:
- Video
- Owner:
- Veterans Affairs Canada
- Recorded:
- July 28, 2017
- Duration:
- 2:11
- Person Interviewed:
- Stanley Edwards
- War, Conflict or Mission:
- Second World War
- Location/Theatre:
- Dieppe
- Battle/Campaign:
- Dieppe
- Branch:
- Army
- Rank:
- Trooper
- Date modified: