 Название: Surviving the Nazi Onslaught: The Defence of Calais to the Death March to Freedom
Автор: Carole McEntee-Taylor
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1783831065
Год: 2014
Язык: английский
Страниц: 215
Формат: pdf
Размер: 106.94 MB
Тед Тейлор, 1-й батальон стрелковой бригады, был отправлен во Францию в мае 1940 года в составе Сил Кале. Первоначально посланные, чтобы открыть линии снабжения быстро отступающему BEF, они вскоре стали защищать Кале против могущества 10-й танковой дивизии. Превзойденные в силе противника по меньшей мере три к одному, они продержались 4 дня, пока не закончились боеприпасы и они были вынуждены сдаться. В течение следующих пяти лет Тед оказался частью огромной рабской рабочей силы в Польше в лагерях для военнопленных Шталаг ХХА и Шталаг XXB.
Ted Taylor, 1st Battalion, The Rifle Brigade, was sent to France in May 1940 as part of Calais Force. Initially sent to open up supply lines to the rapidly retreating BEF, they soon found themselves defending Calais against the might of the 10th Panzer Division. Outnumbered by at least three to one they held out for 4 days until they ran out of ammunition and were forced to surrender.
For the next five years Ted found himself part of the huge slave labour force in Poland under the administration of Stalag XXA and Stalag XXB. Life in the POW camps bore little resemblance to the cheerful films of the 1950s with casual brutality never far from the surface. As 1945 began and the war entered its final bloody phase, the POWs dared to believe that at last they might be going home. But fate had one more cruel trick to play.
As the Russians approached rapidly from the east, the terrified Germans evacuated the camps and, in temperatures below -25c, began marching the malnourished, poorly-clothed POWs back across Europe. The infamous'death marches'to freedom across the frozen, chaotic, war ravaged landscape of Eastern Europe had begun.
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