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.