Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works to Today I learned@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 days agoTIL in 1945 after a compulsory viewing of a film on the holocaust, 1000 German POWs at Camp Butner burned their German uniforms in disgusten.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up157arrow-down11
arrow-up156arrow-down1external-linkTIL in 1945 after a compulsory viewing of a film on the holocaust, 1000 German POWs at Camp Butner burned their German uniforms in disgusten.wikipedia.orgColdmoon@sh.itjust.works to Today I learned@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square5fedilink
minus-squarefrightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down1·2 days agoDid it “in disgust”… but they’d already lost the war and become PoWs, so the cynic in me says they did it out of self-preservation.
Did it “in disgust”… but they’d already lost the war and become PoWs, so the cynic in me says they did it out of self-preservation.