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Hitler's Canadians
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In the spring of 1940 small towns across Canada awakened to the sound of Nazi jackboots. German soldiers, sailors and pilots marched down main streets to hastily constructed camps for some 40,000 German fighters imprisoned as POWs on Canadian soil.
In 1940, before the U.S. entered WW II in 1941, the growing ranks of German prisoners in Britain presented an urgent problem. Straining to meet the Geneva Convention standards for POW treatment and with Nazi armies nearing their shores, Britain saw the POWs as a potential threat on their own soil and opted to send them to Canada. Some POWs were in prison here so long they called themselves ?Hitler?s Canadians?.
Hitler?s Canadians tells the little known story of German POWs in Canada during WW2. It features dramatic re-enactments of brilliant and hilarious escapes, the biggest prison rebellion in Canadian history and surprising interviews with former prisoners.
Without exception, the former POWs seen in ?Hitler?s Canadians? were grateful for Canada?s hospitality and treatment. All of them realize that if it weren?t for their time behind Canadian barbed wire, they might not have survived the war. Between 1947 and 1960, 265,000 Germans immigrated to Canada. 6,000 of them were former POWs. |
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| List Price: $24.99 CDN |
| Category: DRAMA,HISTORY,MILITARY & WAR,POLITICS |
| Format: DVD |
| Region: 1 |
| NTSC: YES |
| Color: YES |
| Home Video Rights: YES |
| Educational Video Rights: NO |
| Sound: DOLBY DIGITAL 2.1 |
| Discs: 1 |
| Running Time: 48 Minutes |
| Director: Douglas Williams |
| Producer: Ed Barreveld, Ted Biggs |
| Narrator: Ted Biggs |
| Language: English |
| Year Produced: 2 |
| Additional Info: Actors: Dr. Erwin Knauss - Neil Adams; German Doctor - Ed Barreveld; Captain G.E. Brent - Matthew Carvery; Dr. Karl Rabe ? Jeffrey Henderson; Ulrich Steinhilper - Daniel Molenhuis
Volkmar K?nig - Brian Rieper |
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