Wherever there is war, there will be captives, and in World War 2, on that vast battlefield, captives became another group of war, whether german prisoners or British and American prisoners, who were actually victims of war. There are many times when these prisoners cannot be separated from the war even if they have been far away from the battlefield, and have become an indispensable part of the battlefield.
When it comes to prisoners during World War II, everyone will certainly think of those who lost their lives at the hands of the Germans, but in fact, we can also see from another perspective what the situation of the German soldiers in the hands of the United States is. In fact, the United States initially proposed a policy of preferential treatment of prisoners, and they signed the Geneva Convention, which forced them to give preferential treatment to prisoners.
In the American prisoner of war camp, the German prisoners could have their own lounges, and they could also carry out a lot of self-amusement activities in their daily lives, not to mention the food, and there were many photos of German soldiers who were prisoners in the United States at that time. Some of them cheered, some of them played the piano and sang, anyway, they were much more comfortable than the Germans on the battlefield. In fact, this is a psychological tactic carried out by the United States against Germany.
When the German combat soldiers saw that their compatriots were living so well in the United States, they themselves were bloody and precarious. If you go to the battlefield today, you don't know if you can come back alive, so many people actually have no intention of fighting in the later stages.
The psychological tactics used by the United States for a long time maintained preferential treatment for German prisoners, so that Germany was completely defeated in the middle and late stages. But, after all, this is a way of fighting, does the United States really like the German prisoners that much? Of course, the answer was no, and then the situation of German captives in the United States slowly began to deteriorate.
The famous open-air prisoner camps on the banks of the Rhine are the best examples. There the German captives had no shelter from the sun, and lived entirely in the open air, and the high-end treatment of the toilet and the bathroom was simply impossible to fill the camp with excrement everywhere, making them smell bad. There was no food to eat, the German captives there were living very hard, and the American army did not allow the surrounding residents to pity them to give them food, and it was forbidden to give food to the German captives, otherwise they would be shot. In this way, the German soldiers who surrendered on the battlefield knew that they had been deceived.
In the Second World War, in fact, it was very cruel to Both Germany and other countries, whether it was German prisoners, or British and American prisoners, they were the most seriously injured people in the war, for the selfish desires of their leaders, they gave up their original comfortable lives, all of which were unbearable in the past.