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**4V50 Gary** · January 28, 2021, 11:27 PM

British and American officer PoWs in a German camp were permitted to garden and found the soil far too hard to break up with the tools they were issued.

"They simply started a rumor that there was a tunnel in the area, and the Germans brought in a platoon to dig up the soil looking for a tunnel, and therefore loosened the soil for their garden."

Pretty smart. ROFLMAO.

From p 233-4 of Tony Lupkin's Captured Yesterday.

One thing I noticed is that our enlisted personnel could be starved and forced to work. Hardly any Red Cross food parcels reached them and they were feed bread with wood flour (sawdust) as well as a watery soup. Lupkin mentions the ferquency of packages that the officers received.

January 28, 2021, 11:27 PM	#510
4V50 Gary Staff Join Date: November 2, 1998 Location: Colorado Posts: 22,294	When the PoWs found the ground too hard to break up with the garden tools.... British and American officer PoWs in a German camp were permitted to garden and found the soil far too hard to break up with the tools they were issued. "They simply started a rumor that there was a tunnel in the area, and the Germans brought in a platoon to dig up the soil looking for a tunnel, and therefore loosened the soil for their garden." Pretty smart. ROFLMAO. From p 233-4 of Tony Lupkin's Captured Yesterday. One thing I noticed is that our enlisted personnel could be starved and forced to work. Hardly any Red Cross food parcels reached them and they were feed bread with wood flour (sawdust) as well as a watery soup. Lupkin mentions the ferquency of packages that the officers received. __________________ Vigilantibus et non dormientibus jura subveniunt. *Molon Labe!*