Had he been recognised as a PC and the the problem was that the Germans interrogated Russian POWs to denounce their PCs who had managed to appear as normal POWs,he would have been murdered.Incidentally,the reason,among others why so many German Generals spent time,post war, in Russia because while protesting about the practice, did nothing positive to stop it. Having paid a trip to Mauthausen, I noticed that a large number of Russian POW NCOs were murdered there under the Hitler Bullet decree.Execution was usually by the bullet in the nape of the neck through a small hole in a wall with the prisoner standing against the wall in a room, the "execution chamber" unsuspecting anything terminal was afoot. Harry, This was also the case with many Russian Soldier POW's taken to Sachsenhausen and executed in Station 'Z'. Neck shot whilst unsuspecting victim was standing being measured against the wall. The shot being fired from behind the wall through a hole camouflaged by the Wooden measuring rule. Regards Tom
