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- From: kamorgan@athena.mit.edu (Keith Morgan)
- Subject: Re: war camp stories
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:35:18 GMT
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- Arne Halvoren writes:
-
- And now for an expert question:
- >
- > I have heard somewhere that PG after the war made something comic about
- > british prisoner of war, kind of life in german prisoner camps thing,
- > but that he this time completly missed his readers, and that he got
- > a lot of flames for this.
- >
- > Anything in this??, and is the stories if they exist to be get, to day
- > we may have fun, me, I am born after the war.
-
-
- One hesitates to answer as an expert but as I remember this episode
- PGW was caught up in the German tour of France in 1940. Apparently,
- the dear boy didn't take all those reports of impending breakthroughs
- seriously (of course, neither did the British and French armies
- either, but that's another group). So he was picked up by the Nazis
- and agreed to do some radio broadcasts for them. These weren't of the
- Lord Haw-Haw throw down your guns fellows variety but they were viewed
- with some distaste by the British high command. I think that PGW was
- eventually repatriated (he may have been a US citizen by then) and
- after the war some spoil-sports thought he should have been tried for
- treason. Fortunately, saner heads prevailed. I have some details on
- this at home and will provide more info if anyone wants. This
- episode is often used as proof of the essential distance that PGW had
- from contemporary events.
-
- Keith Morgan
-
-
-
- --
-
- Keith Morgan kamorgan@athena.mit.edu
- In the end nothing could be said of his work except that it was
- preposterous and true and totally unacceptable. Edward Whittemore
-