Timewatch

Timewatch· Season 9 · Episode 4

Accounts of a Forgotten Army

S09E04·September 5, 1990·50m·BBC Two

In 1945 the German State and its army disappeared. Recently, harrowing tales from Germans who were prisoners in American camps at that time have begun to emerge. A Canadian author has alleged that nearly a million German soldiers died while prisoners of the Allies. His figures are disputed, but did the American authorities, with images of concentration camps fresh in their minds, set out to punish Germans?

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