... while in captivity?
I understand that some camps organized theatrical companies, which would have been of great interest to someone like Donald Pleasence, who was a POW in real life.
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They were allowed books, records, and could buy musical instruments with PoW money -"lagergeld" -and so often formed orchestras too along with doing theatrical productions. Playing chess and other board games, football and other physical type games if they had the space. In Colditz a particularly brutal game called Stoolball was played, a cross between football and rugby that was played with two teams who each had a goalkeeper on a stool- the object being IIRC to touch the stool with the ball to score a goal. The rules consisted of anything goes except actually killing each other.
In Colditz too as there were PoWs of various nationalities the prisoners taught languages to each other, rather useful too if one was considering escaping.
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My uncle was shot down and KIA on March 18, 1944. Other membersof the crew survived and were taken to Stalagluft iii. I've seen pictures of pretty elaborate theater productions, including musical instruments.
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They had to pay for any instruments using PoW camp money- Lagergeld- which they were given as a sort of salary roughly commensurate with their army (or air forces, etc) pay. A piano was often provided free though.
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Stool ball- has it been played in peacetime?
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Prisoners came from all walks of life and often shared their civilian skills with those who wanted to learn. My dad, a very young man when he was captured, had dropped out of school as a teenager. In the prison camp he took math classes from a guy who was a mathematician in civilian life. He also took lessons in other academic subjects. After the war he attributed his rather good education to being a prisoner of war and he became a very successful engineer because of those math classes.
shareI know this is an old post, but have you seen the movie Stalag 17? It's set in a POW camp as well. It's sort of a comedy/mystery/drama that became the basis for the TV show Hogan's Heroes.
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In the museum of Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, I saw a home-made chess set and a notebook a Polish prisoner was using to learn French. And conditions in Stalag Luft III would have been less harsh than Mauthausen.
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