Eric Reeves, 104, joined the Territorial Army at 16 and became a Lance Corporal with the Queen's Royal Regiment by the age of 20 but was captured by German forces in 1940 and spen ...

After the policy forbidding German Jews from serving ... considered by many POWs to be a much more menacing proposition than being captured by the Americans, if they didn't talk.

During World War II, the British secret service hatched a master plan to smuggle escape gear to captured Allied ... more than 35,000 Allied POWs had escaped from German prison camps.