Poles in Lwf

[Brian Bines]

On the Do24 Homepage under 'people' Henri Dannemark states his crew consisted of a German, a Pole, a Frenchman and a Belgium. There are a couple of books including 'The Forgotten Soldier' which seems to explain the situation as prior to 1919 a lot of people in Europe were born as German but had their nationalities changed in the hand over of former German territory following the Treaty of Versailles. After the German Invasion of 1939 their forces retook these areas and many people became German again, some serving in German forces. There are several references in 'K' reports to captured airmen being worried on capture because they were of Polish descent . I suppose these people fell under the change of status category described in 'The Forgotten Soldier'.