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Judy, a purebred English pointer who would often jump in to protect prisoners from beatings in a POW camp during WW2. A British Naval pilot bargained to have her officially considered a POW so the guards could not kill her.

During WW2, captured German officers were sent to Britain as POWs and lived in luxury in Trent Park to make them feel relaxed. However, they were being listened to by 100 ‘listeners’. They revealed secrets about the holocaust, events in Berlin, Hitler's madness and V2 rocket bases.

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1. The last WW2 POW to be repatriated was a Hungarian soldier who sat in a Russian mental hospital for 53 years before a linguist realized that he wasn't actually talking gibberish

2. Rupert Trimmingham, a black US Army soldier serving in WW2 who wrote a letter to the Army magazine about having to eat behind a train depot restaurant while German POWs were served inside in 1944, sparking support from other soldiers and contributing to the integration of the army in 1948.

3. A man kayaked from Germany to Australia between 1932-1939 only to arrive and be detained as a POW due to the outbreak of WW2

4. Many German POWs captured by the Allies in WW2 were so horrified by footage of the Holocaust that they burned their uniforms and called on Germany to surrender, and even volunteered to join the fight against the Axis.

5. When Kurt Vonnegut served in WW2 he was captured by Germans during the Battle of the Bulge. He was a POW in Dresden and survived the bombing of the city by hiding in a meat locker in a slaughterhouse where he was imprisoned. This inspired him to write the anti-war novel Slaughter-House Five.

6. 3 Italians broke out of a WW2 British POW camp. With meagre rations and equipment they attempted to climb Mount Kenya. After 18 days, they broke back into the camp and were awarded 18 days solitary confinement (reduced to 7 by the commandant in honor of their 'sporting effort')

7. A 'rigged' edition of Monopoly with hidden maps, real money, escape tools, etc. was distributed in care packages to WW2 PoWs in Germany. Airline pilots were trained to recognize the rigged edition before deployment.

8. The five Japanese submarines in the Pearl Harbor attack, only one made it to Pearl but was quickly sunk without hitting any target. Three others were sunk as they tried to enter Pearl Harbor, and the fifth washed ashore where its only surviving crewman was the first WW2 POW at American hands.

9. The Allies killed over 20,000 of their own POWs on Japanese "hell ships" in WW2 because "interdiction of critical strategic materials was more important than the deaths of prisoners-of-war."

10. Japan didn't sign the 1929 Geneva convention on treatment of POWs, and nearly half of all Americans captured by the Japanese in WW2 were killed in custody.

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Shinyō Maru was a Japanese merchant vessel during WW2. Thinking it was carrying enemy soldiers, the USS Paddle attacked and sunk it, later realizing there were 750 American POWs aboard.

Noor Inayat Khan was an Indian royal and a WW2 SOE agent who worked the most dangerous job in France. She died at age 30 as a POW in Dachau with her last word being 'Liberté'. - source

University of Kansas offered university courses to German POWs at Camp Concordia during WW2 - source

During WW2 in the German POW camp Stalag Luft III, (where the notorious "Great Escape" took place) POWs would openly call German Guards "Goons". Not understanding the meaning, they accepted the name after being told it was an acronym for "German Officer Or Non-Com".

About Judy, a ship's dog on the HMS Grasshopper during WW2. In 1941, the ship sunk after being hit by Japanese bombs, and Judy lived. A sailor found her pinned under lockers. The crew were captured by Japanese, and they became POWs, with Judy among them. She survived the war. - source

Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart, a veteran of the Boer War, WW1, and WW2. He was shot multiple times, was in two plane crashes, and tunnelled out of a POW camp, among other badassery. Describing his experience of WW1, he wrote "Frankly, I had enjoyed the War."

Allied airmen used Monopoly to escape from German POW Camps during WW2

Monopoly sets were used to send maps and tools to POW's during WW2.

In the last month of WW2 in Europe, all German POWs were reclassified as "Disarmed Enemy Forces" to circumvent the Geneva Convention, and thousands died in mass prison camps of starvation, exposure, and disease.

German WW2 pilot Armin Faber who got lost after shooting down a Spitfire and landed in the UK, giving them an intact then-new Fw-190 fighter to study. In a POW camp in Canada he faked epilepsy, was returned to Germany, and resumed front-line combat duty.

Peter Tyrell, who was sent to a Christian Brothers run institute as a child. As an adult he joined the British Army; captured as a POW by the Germans during WW2, where he felt treated better than in Letterfrack. He later self imolated to highlight the many abuses by the priests.