Von Eissinger was simply lying, of course! Either that or he was seriously deluded. He was one of those deluded German aristocrats who believed they could control Hitler and Nazism.

This is better than the revised version.

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"I love a Political Joke, until one gets elected that is!!!"

Today i learned of it Started at ep1 This is gonna be good

Wow that's cool!

Oh how amazing. He played it so well.

Yes and the guy he is interrogating was in Secret Army as well (Flt Lt Curtiss of MI-19 in Session 1)

Believe it or not, the Gestapo did have uniformed officers in addition to plainclothes operatives. Their uniforms were the same as those worn by the regular SS, just with blank black collar patches in lieu of the SS lightning bolts for all ranks under colonel, as well as green trim (meaning these ones are inaccurate; in addition to having the lightning bolts, they have white trim; white was for infantry). And I don't know where you got the idea that the SS only ever wore black, or that only the SS-TV (concentration camp personnel) had the death's head emblem. Except for tank crews, all SS switched to gray (not green) uniforms during the war and the black uniform was phased out except for dress uniforms intended for ceremonial purposes such as parties and parades, and all SS wore the death's head on their cap, not just the SS-TV. They did however have an extra one on their right collar patches for all ranks under colonel, though.

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+Scott Clinton Yup nowadays nothing has changed.

There was a war on, you know.

Do you not understand this is a true story written by someone who was actually there?

No - Germans speaking English are represented with German accents. But Germans speaking German as heard by German British speaking protagonists is represented as perfect English.

@@ianinkster2261 wadda bout that guy singing in the shower

@@ianinkster2261 A bit like 'Allo 'Allo, then...

Should be wearing an SD uniform.

It is a common misconception amongst the uninformed and in Hollywood to mistake the British and the English or are you saying the Scots Welsh and N Irish do not make that mistake. For further information, WIKIPEDIA has an excellent article on the subject

The Gestapo did have SS uniforms, they just didn't have the lighting bolts on their collars. Their uniforms were also trimmed in green. The problem is that generally, when people think of the Gestapo, they think only of the plainclothes/undercover operatives, not the uniformed officers. Aside from the fact these guys have the lightning bolts and white trim instead of green, their outfits are reasonably accurate for uniformed Gestapo personnel of the time.

@@wcatholic1 The SD and Gestapo were two different organizations.

Thank You. That was interesting. I did wonder why they had uniforms as I believe the Gestapo did not.

This series is based on a true pow prison. Enjoy the program. Few if any of these were ever made. Wish it lasted longer.

Colditz is a small town in the district of Leipzig, in Saxony, Germany. It is best known for Colditz Castle, the site of the Oflag IV-C POW camp for officers

I dont think "Who izt ze clever dick who izt playing games with meine letterhosen?" would improve that line of dialoge.

the train station

he studied in england before the war :)

As part of the Geneva convention, prisoners on both sides had access to their uniforms. Sent through the Red Cross.

On the contrary, a lot of language students at Polytechnic I knew in the 1970s could speak fluent French & German. If you stay with a family & work in the country studying at degree level these skill are attainable.

Lookup2Wakeup I also studied languages at university and am multilingual. For my poly time I know of no-one who learned a language as an adult who speaks like a native. The only way is to have been there as a child.

I don't see how I have taken Goebbels diary out of context. The Nazis were not backed by the German people all the way, in the elections of November 1932 the Nazis got around one third of the votes - that means that two thirds voted for other parties. As for if I have been abroad or not, a simple glance at my channel would indicate that I have spent some time in countries outside of the UK. I am mutlilingual - proof is on my channel although that would take more than a cursory glance. I also have a degree in linguistics although you will have to take my word on that one. I was also in the British Army during the Cold War and in that time I did not once meet anyone in our forces who could speak as a native. If you claim that you can speak German like a native, why not put up a film on you tube so other people can hear your German. Despite knowing the words and grammar of languages, it is clear that I am a native English speaker and even when I speak English it is clear from my pronunciation of vowel sounds like 'oo' or 'u' that I come from a north eastern working class background.

UKTinker The idea that Germans were somehow better off under the Nazis than before is not born out by statistics. To take a comparison between 1936 and 1928 as an example, to use figures given to Hitler, we see the average wage had fallen, unemployment was higher, food queues were getting longer and prices were also higher. So one or two people may have been better off, but the majority were worse off in an economy run on socialist lines where massive amounts were spent on arms. As for my knowledge, I would suggest to you that as I have travelled and you have not and as I am multilingual and you are not then I am probably more of an authority than you are. You claim that there were people who could pass for Germans who were native English speakers but as you cannot speak the language yourself you would scarcely be in a position to judge.

+Alan Heath 1928 was before the crash, so that's hardly a fair comparison. There's little doubt that that the situation of the mid-late 30s had Germans living far better than they were in 1930. On top of it all, millions had their pride. Both personally and nationally -- something many had never known in the chaos of Weimar and the Depression.

One approves, what?

It's to represent what a clipped German officer class accent might sound like .Better than fake German accents speaking English I think.

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You appear to be talking bollocks

Commonwealth cares a shit about UK

fdfdfdfd ffjkhgjkgffhsfgkkfgj The commonwealth was solidly on Britain’s side in 1940.

Because they would have had to get a whole bunch of German actors and it's an English production. And to put out a subtitled programme in 1972 would have went down like a lead balloon that's why.

@@ewanmacfarlane9195 Really?

I doubt it. No fun being hungry much of the time.

I hope that was a joke mate. if not you really need to do some reading on the subject. you will see that it was not all fun and games. in fact none of it was fun and games.

@@tommyfred6180 Well to be fair, Colditz was a lot better then most normal german POW camps. American, British, and French prisoners were almost never subjected to the atrocious conditions Russian and Polish prisoners were in the first place (one of the reasons german POW's were treated so badly). And Colditz also only housed officers, and officers in german POW prisons usually had a lot more freedom, as well as better rations then a normal private. This can be easily seen in the case of Colditz, with the french prisoners construction a hidden radio room, as well as the fact that, despite it being a high security prison, prisoners were constantly escaping there. Recaptured escapees usually got up to 3 months solitary, which considering you are talking about nazi germany here, is not as bad as it could be.

@@slome815 mate i'm not saying other didn't have it even harder. i thought i made that clear in my last sentence. British under statement i for you. i'v been to the channel islands and see the conditions some Russian POWs suffered and they had it good compared with other Russians did in other camps. as for them getting better because of being officers. well thats you falling for Nazi propergander. that was a story they made up to encourage privet soldiers to join work parties or even fight for them. its bull the red cross boxes they got had nothing in them that others did not get. they also did not get the boxes complete but broken down with lots of stuff removed. so you can reasonably say they got less much of the time. the fact is the building was rundown, very cold even in summer. damp with a water system that barley worked in winter and smelled so bad in summer that some parts of the building could not be used. the guys also didn't have access to open ground or land to cultivate. unlike most other guys held in camps. you are correct that the French guys built a radio room. but that was just down to the skill of the men involved and the fact that lots of the building was abandoned and closed off. so they had space and junk to work with. it was also not the only camp the to this by far. also the the prison did not just hold officers. it had a number of NCO's and other ranks. they just never get a mention. as a last point the reason prisoners mostly got off light for escaping is simple. almost everyone held was well known to the red cross and killing them off would have made waves on a political level re SS and others. that said some did "just die" and many suffered sociological attacks' that are hard both for them to talk about and impossible for most to understand. it was a high profile unit but it never got extra or top end as a result.