Whoever Put In Here They Watched The Windermere Children

[Bobbisox1]

Thank you, it was the best thing I’ve seen on TV in a long time

[Mamyalynne]

It was excellent I agree, I haven't watched the documentary that followed straight after it on BBC4 yet.

[Bobbisox1]

No, we haven’t either, but we will

[KUSTARD]

I too thought it was one of the best programmes for ages and so was the documentary that followed tying the real people in with the children in the drama.

[Bigbad]

That part at the end where they were reflected in the lake and the children became the men in the present day, was very moving.
Didn’t they all do well for themselves too.

[Spicerack]

Yes. Fairly predictable but interesting.
I always enjoy interviews and docu-dramas with old Jewish people.
The ones we see have all led productive lives, are grateful to others and for life. No bitterness or anger and are generally great raconteurs.
I'm sure they can't all be 'saints' but the ones we see are always interesting. (good television)

[Bigbad]

So do I, spicerack. I’m pretty sure that I’d seen one of the men in a two part documentary I watched about a week ago.

[Spicerack]

This one https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b050cvdd was brilliant. A must see for anyone who hasn't. (imo)

[Bobbisox1]

Thanks for the link Spicey, I’ll get it on catch up

[Ken4155]

Haven't watched the Windermere Children yet, but will no doubt catch up with it later this week. I did watch the docu on Belsen last week and found some of the interviews with ex-inmates very interesting, as well as powerfully poignant. There was one no-nonsense old dear, a German Jew, who explained how, when the POWs came to be repatriated, those in charge originally wanted to send her back to Germany!! Beggars belief, really.

[anneasquith]

Worth a look .

[Peter Pedant]

chrissakes ( yeah I know I should be tree hugging kissy kissy ) // who explained how, when the POWs came to be repatriated, those in charge originally wanted to send her back to Germany!! Beggars belief, really.//

they werent POWs ( kriegsgefangener) they were er something else - rules were different - the POWs were near the bottom of the food chain by werent actively starved unlike the inmates of the camps, wore uniform

and had a right not to have forced labour, had parole for walks and were allowed a shower once every two weeks - oddly just been reading my fathers diaries for 1944.

[Peter Pedant]

// to send her back to Germany!! Beggars belief, really.//

er no - this is part of the shock / disturbance and disbelief that history has been rewritten - see Putins speech that the Russians partitioned Poland in 1939 to save the poles from German domination
not bought by the poles at all

I think it was at Yalta - the betrayal of Yalta (*) that Churchill gave Poland to Russia AND agreed that the displaced populations were to be returned to their countries of origin as set at 1939

so the woman would know - she cant be ignorant of this

the cossacks who fought for the Germans ( eek bad call there then ) were returned to the Russians and straight into a Gulag or firing squad

( I thought the windermere children were too old and too fat)

(*) we have previously had a round of "what yalty den?" - The Poles fought for King George and do not revere Churchill