His screenwriting credits include the feature film envy plus almost two hundred hours of produced television credits ranging from the hugely successful and critically acclaimed Underbelly franchise to the iconic childrenâs television program, Play School.is screenwriting credits include the feature film envy plus almost two hundred hours of produced television credits ranging from the hugely successful and critically acclaimed Underbelly franchise to the iconic childrenâs television program, Play School.
Sixteen million Americans served in World War II. Of these, over 120,000 lived out part of the war behind barbed wire. In the European theater, 93,941 Americans were held as prisoners of war (POWs). These âKriegies,â short for Kriegsgefangener (German for POW) counted the days until liberation and created dream worlds for themselves inside the camps.
The last German POWs werenât released from the Soviet Union until 1956. While the western Allies released their final World War II prisoners in 1948, many German POWs in the U.S.S.R. were kept under lock and key for several more years. Most were used as slave labor in copper or coal mines, and anywhere between 400,000 and one million eventually died while in Russian custody.