The struggle for survival in captivity after World War II SWR Heimat Rheinland-Pfalz
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"Your humanity was erased there. And that in itself was the most gruesome memory: you were no longer human." It is May 8, 1945. The Second World War is over. The so-called Rhine meadow camps are being built along the Rhine - temporary prison camps in the open field. Around a million German soldiers are held as prisoners of war there. The American soldiers entrusted with organizing and guarding the camps are hopelessly overwhelmed with caring for the prisoners. Today it is estimated that between 5,000 and 15,000 people lost their lives there. That was 75 years ago. Only a few people can report on the catastrophic conditions in these camps. Rolf Sachweh, now 94 years old, survived the martyrdom. To this day he cannot forget the images of the suffering of that time. Even the makeshift outhouse became a death trap for some of the emaciated prisoners. "Sometimes they fell into the shit and stayed there. They paddled a few times and then disappeared. Nobody helped them. I don't want to think about it now." The circumstances were horrific, reports Rolf Sachweh, but the prisoners could not expect any sympathy from their guards - after all, many of them were responsible for the most gruesome crimes. For Rolf Sachweh, one thing is therefore particularly important: never again war, never again Nazi terror, never again dehumanization. Subscribe to the Landesschau Rheinland-Pfalz channel at: http://x.swr.de/s/lsyt Welcome to the YouTube channel of the Landesschau Rheinland-Pfalz. Highlights of our program await you here: portraits, reports, documentaries, art, culture, advice! We have daily updates on the channel. Subscribe to us if you don't want to miss anything. More Landesschau: Official homepage: https://landesschau-rp.de Facebook: / landesschau More SWR Heimat: Instagram: / swr_heimat_rp
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