The Imperial War Museum
Bill writes: On Wednesday, July 13, Aline and I went to the Imperial War Museum:
Where we saw displays of a variety of war machines and a special exhibit on various attempts to escape from camps during WWII. That was of extra interest to me, in that my father was a POW during the Second World War. However, in his case, he was first arrested before the war and put in a concentration camp in Germany because he was Jewish, and then, after fleeing to England and living in Manchester for a few years, was shipped to Canada and put in a POW camp because he was German, a fate shared by all recently arrived German Jews in England. Fortunately, he had been trained as an engineer in Germany and had worked as a tool and die maker in England, so he was able to help the Allied war effort in Canada by working on technical drawings in the camp. In fact, he looked back on his years as a POW with great fondness. And yes, there are about three levels of irony in that situation, I know.
Where we saw displays of a variety of war machines and a special exhibit on various attempts to escape from camps during WWII. That was of extra interest to me, in that my father was a POW during the Second World War. However, in his case, he was first arrested before the war and put in a concentration camp in Germany because he was Jewish, and then, after fleeing to England and living in Manchester for a few years, was shipped to Canada and put in a POW camp because he was German, a fate shared by all recently arrived German Jews in England. Fortunately, he had been trained as an engineer in Germany and had worked as a tool and die maker in England, so he was able to help the Allied war effort in Canada by working on technical drawings in the camp. In fact, he looked back on his years as a POW with great fondness. And yes, there are about three levels of irony in that situation, I know.
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