Prisoner concentration camp Germany German Nazis

 

Unbreakable will and no fear.

 

The man's name was Horace Greasley.

 

He was a British prisoner of war famous for escaping more than 200 times to visit his girlfriend, a local Jewish girl. Why did he keep coming back? Loyalty.

 

He returned each time with extra food or other contraband to share with his fellow captives.

Greasley spent 5 years as a prisoner of war, during which time he served as a camp barber and worked in the marble quarries.

After the capture, the men were forced to march for ten weeks from France to Poland.

 

The men suffered deplorable conditions and spent a winter, in temperatures as low as -40°C, housed in an old horse stable.

Those who survived the march and the train transfer were beaten, tortured and starved. Greasley was once beaten so badly that he remained unconscious for 2 days.

In 2008, his biography, "Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell?" was published.

 

 Two years after its release, he died at age 91.

 

When I look at this photo, I always admire the defiance on his face.

 

He never gave up on his principles