Basically yes they were in the sense that their conditions were horrible and they had very little food. The jews liberated from the concentration camps look like those soldiers
There was a POW near where i live. The conditions were so great that only one escape was made. They only did so to see the pacific ocean. ( they were two u-boat men, who had only operated in the pacific). They later turned themslves in.
It is rumored that they made them play the legend of Zelda ocarina of time in the camps. But they only played the water temple until released or killed. True torture.
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Sh*t.
DAMMIT