Major Heinz Cramer & Franz Von Werra

[Chris Goss]

I am in touch with Peter if you would like me to forward an emai

[Peter Cornwell]

Press account from 1991 puts a somewhat different 'gloss' on the account.

[Larry]

Excellent; I thought there must be more to the acussations against Drake-Brockham than him being spat at, which may have occurred after he threatened to remove part of their anatomy!

And Chris, if you are able to contact Peter Osborne regarding Flypast articles and obtaining copies that would be great.

[Chris Goss]

Larry

Send me an email & I will forward it

[Nick Hector]

Thanks to those who responded with info about these incidents. Fair's fair, it was a thoroughly unacceptable way to treat prisoners but on the other side of the coin, very likely a result of PTSD

[Larry]

In the newspaper cutting, it says Drake-Brockman said to the prisoners "You buggers have killed my mother". As the CWGC records military and civilian was dead I thought I would see if there was a Mrs Drake-Brockman killed that year but found nothing, though there was a Mrs Drake killed that very day on 17th Sept 1940. I think it is very unlikely to be related and would surely have been mentioned in his Court Marshall.

The only other possibility is his parents were divorced and his mother had changed her name, and was killed in the Blitz on London that started earlier in September 1940

[VtwinVince]

Very interesting story. Reminds me of the British general who flogged Field Marshal Milch with his own marshal's baton after his capture in 1945. The English weren't always as 'sporting' as they liked others to believe.