Encounters between captors and captives, many exemplifying hospitality, some harm, are explored through newspapers and personal accounts of the time.
Let’s Get Those Jerries!’: Luftwaffe Airmen and British Captors On a hazy summer’s day in August 1940, a lone German bomber is hurtling uncontrollably towards the ground in the north-east of England; the aircraft whines in protest at the sharp hiding it has just taken...