German POWs in Herefordshire Were Sent to Pick the Hops — Most Never Wanted to Leave
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@HisMajestysGuests · 4 days ago · pinned
Every film on this channel, in the order they were made: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIPwh4BLTEW0">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIPwh4BLTEW0</a><br><br>Anton Reiss and Walter Peart are invented — a German prisoner and a Herefordshire farmer that the record makes plausible, not two named men. Camp 27, the hop yards around Ledbury, the tea ration, the camp tokens and the twenty-four thousand who stayed are all real, and the sources are in the description.<br><br>If someone in your family picked hops in Herefordshire, took a prisoner on at harvest, or lived near a camp — tell me where, and what they said about it. That is where the next film comes from.
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