Hitler's Canadians

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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[raedenjay]

i saw a hockey stick haha

[paladin12122]

Because we made POW camps for Germans? You really are playing on the Ignorrant American stereotype.

[marcelthemaoist]

They lived in luxury in these "POW camps", meanwhile Japanese-CANADIANS were rotting and the state tried to assassinate it's own citizens in the Kingston pen for being communists. Fuck KKKanada.

[iceblue345]

@paladin12122 We did its true, Some Germans captured from the battle of france were taken to Canada, so i'v heard

[legoww2man]

wut the hell Hitler Realy he is a bad man :(

[1988scottcarey]

We also detained the japanese citizens.

[JamesWorldStudios]

@grandamracer23 I wrote those 2 months ago, completely forgot what I was talking about nor interested to figure out what the debate was. xD

[grandamracer23]

@JamesWorldStudios ha thats a joke right?

[NEXUS2040]

@raedenjay I laughed so hard when I saw that.

[JamesWorldStudios]

@USAtollermann I highly doubt you're Canadian, I am not even gonna say that's 1% possibility, I would have to say -0.999999999% possibility. You're too full of yourself, so takes one to know one? Whatever that means? Only thing I can see you referring to as that is the envy bit, which I already said I go by facts, not stupidity about retardation of where I was born and how its better. I state why it is, unlike you... Stinky American.

[USAtollermann]

@JamesWorldStudios ....dude, I was born in Canada, so as they say, it takes one to know one...so why don't you get "LOSS." 8-)

[JamesWorldStudios]

@USAtollermann I am going by the facts, not envying shit. I don't stand up entirely for my country if it isn't necessary. I think you envy your country to the max due to your name being USA, heck... Its been said, people who say things like this, are usually referring to themselves. Now, get loss.