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Interesting story in two parts Some 25 years or so ago, before Wikipedia and Google search, I read an interesting story. Auschwitz had some of British POWs working there doing supposedly non war related tasks. One of the Brits held there was a British Royal Navy doctor, who was Jewish, in the camp with the prisoners who were being worked to death. The doctor had supposedly been taken from a RN submarine that had been captured by the Germans. A British sergeant decided to try to find him. He changed places with one of prisoners and went into the other camp with the work party. He did not find the Brit doctor, and switched places again to get back to the British barrack. Fast forward to now. I got a about one of the Brits who was there. Sergeant Major Charles Coward. A movie was made in the fifties about his escapades entitled The Password Is Courage; starring Dirk Bogarde. Coward is the one who went looking for the Brit doctor. The story now is that the doctor had been taken from ship that had been torpedoed, and not from a sub. After I finished the I looked up the Coward story on the web. During that process I found that the Brit doctor had been identified. He survived Auschwitz and was marched west along with thousands of others. He escaped, hid, and eventually was found by the American army. He had been a doctor on a ship but not a RN officer. After the war he went back to serving on ships as a doctor. |
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Amazing .... and very interesting!!!
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