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Here's a story about how German Prisoners of War were seen in England.

I was about eleven or twelve, and had been evacuated to Chorleywood in Hertfordshire. I always remember that down the road was a prisoner of war camp for Germans who'd been captured. It had turrets and barbed wire, and we could hear them singing their songs. They were guarded by elderly men from the Home Guard -- well, they were in their forties, which seemed old to me at the time! I was slightly awe-struck by those German prisoners -- we had a slight fear of them getting out!

There was also an American base nearby. They would hang around in jeeps, chatting up the girls. They were respected -- we liked them. My friend's sister went out with one of them. I always remember he called around for her once in his Jeep, and had a pistol.

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