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I was watching the Peter Jackson documentary They Shall Not Grow Old and one of the veterans was talking about how the British troops had no animus towards the German POWs, but a great disdain towards their French allies. I remember Robert Graves mentioning something similar in his memoir Goodbye to All That. Since both these accounts were contemporary, neither feels the need to elaborate, but it strikes me as very curious from a modern vantage point. Was it true? Was it widespread? Was it a cultural thing, or a historical thing, or a Protestant v Catholic thing? Was it just that fact that German POWs were a rare encounter, while Brits were regularly encountering French troops and couldn't converse with them and there was just a lot of a culture clash? What's the deal? Dr-ziego ( talk) 08:24, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
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I was watching the Peter Jackson documentary They Shall Not Grow Old and one of the veterans was talking about how the British troops had no animus towards the German POWs, but a great disdain towards their French allies. I remember Robert Graves mentioning something similar in his memoir Goodbye to All That. Since both these accounts were contemporary, neither feels the need to elaborate, but it strikes me as very curious from a modern vantage point. Was it true? Was it widespread? Was it a cultural thing, or a historical thing, or a Protestant v Catholic thing? Was it just that fact that German POWs were a rare encounter, while Brits were regularly encountering French troops and couldn't converse with them and there was just a lot of a culture clash? What's the deal? Dr-ziego ( talk) 08:24, 29 November 2019 (UTC)