Pershing Lecture Series: Guests of the Kaiser and Spoils of the Doughboys - Richard Faulkner
Becoming a prisoner of war has always been a fraught experience. In a matter of minutes, the soldier goes from being an active combatant to being dependent on the mercy and benevolence of their enemies. The passions created by the deadly nature of the Great War's battlefields and the fear and hatred that the war's participants tried to instill in their peoples complicated the process of surrendering during World War I.
Join Dr. Richard Faulkner as he explores the official agreements and regulations that governed the treatment of prisoners of war during the Great War, why soldiers sometimes ignored these procedures, and the American and German treatment of each other's POWs in 1918.
For more information about the National WWI Museum and Memorial visit theworldwar.org
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This is the second time I have heard Dr.Faulkner's excellent lecture, while I'm reading my copy of his great book on Pershing's Crusaders. Thank you, National WW1 Museum for providing such an elucidating and entertaining speaker!
Love this guy’s lectures.
📓✏️ I may be late to the party, but I got my pencil and paper.. Who's ready to actually learn something......love his presentation
Another fantastic lecture from Dr. Faulkner!
Great lecture
Tremendous lecture! If I ever find myself in KC I plan to make the WWI Museum a destination.
Thanks for an interesting presentation!
Back then a commander also had the option to disarm and release his prisoners, the non-written entente was: I release you, you go home and stay there, on your honor you promise not to re-join the fight, your military career is over. In other words, the British who were spared and allowed to go home at Dunkirk should not have fought another day, I know Hitler was expecting that and said so, he hadn't realized perfidious Albion had abandoned all rules, let alone honor and tradition.
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11 ай бұрын
can't discern if you are joking or not. hope you do
Excellent lecture as always, thank you.