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Why did the U.K. during the war ship all German prisoners to Canada? Wouldn't it have been a huge waste of logistics and transport, when they could have just kept them prisoners in the U.K., not to mention that it would have been easier for them to escape from Canada than an island like Great Britain, since Canada was way huger and shared a massive land border with the neutral United States?
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You had troop ships heading back empty, the rides were free.
Also, it's hard to cross the Atlantic.
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>>3232095
I think it was based on the fact that if the UK was invaded, the Germans wouldn't recapture thousands of their soldiers and PILOTS back
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>>3232095
What the fuck are you talking about?
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/nov/08/prisoner-of-war-camps-uk
There were literally hundreds of PoW camps in the UK.
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>>3232108
This.
They even had their own version of the great escape from a camp in Wales. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_Farm.
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>not to mention that it would have been easier for them to escape from Canada
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater_(POW_camp)
>Whitewater was the only POW camp in North America not to be bounded by a fence or barbed wire, as its isolation made escape unfeasible.[4
>The prisoners were also allowed to have pets in the camp, one of which was a juvenile black bear.[4][2]
Why escape?
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>>3232095
>Why did the U.K. during the war ship all German prisoners to Canada?
Punishment.
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