The Long March to Freedom

I was really interested in this as my grandfather was taken from the camp in Thorn (Torun) Stalag XXA camp D. Sadly he died when i was still a child but my father has told me about it and many of the stories the survivors talk about in this programme match what i was told of my grandfathers experience. 300.000 POW's where marched from the East for months with no food so they ate whatever they could get hold pf even eating grass to try and stop the hunger. My grandfathers march ended in another POW camp and the Germans ran away one night and the Russians arrived, said 'Your free' and left. As he was walking out a Hitler youth 'officer' ran up to him with pistol drawn saying he was not going anywhere. He left and the German child did not. The story of what happened needs to be seen by more people as it is not commonly known unless you are a military historian or have a personal connection.