The Kaiser was a dumbass an at his best a mediocre politician, but he also had a huge soft spot about that stuff because of how rejected he felt because of his father insistence on making a liberal out of him. I think he respected the love between a son and his parents since he felt he lacked it, so he wouldn’t let other suffer like him. Imo.
ProfessorForce on
There are people and then there’s this guy.
ghostofkilgore on
Also, as soon as he did return to the POW camp, he began trying to escape. He spent 9 months digging a tunnel with other prisoners, managing to escape, only to be re-captured on the Dutch border.
He also re-joined the military when The 2nd World War broke out.
Aggressive-Use-5657 on
This reminds me of that Roman General in Punic Wars in the Oversimplified vid
AceOfSpades532 on
WW1 was so weird with stuff like this, like it was basically the transition between “honourable”, “gentlemen’s” wars between Europeans, and modern warfare where you die in a ditch miles from home with hell all around you.
casufe on
Gosh. This level of honesty and sticking to deals is like something from the time of chivalric code. I have to ask, how did he get back to Germany?
JustTheOneGoose22 on
Honestly a pretty dumb move by Captain Campbell.
Prestigious-Job-9825 on
Makes me wonder what conditions this POW was kept in. He was an officer with enough pull to make a plea to the German emperor himself, so maybe it wasn’t as bad as what common captured grunts had to endure? That would explain why he willingly returned.
Or was his sense of honor really this strong? I can only wonder.
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The Kaiser was a dumbass an at his best a mediocre politician, but he also had a huge soft spot about that stuff because of how rejected he felt because of his father insistence on making a liberal out of him. I think he respected the love between a son and his parents since he felt he lacked it, so he wouldn’t let other suffer like him. Imo.
There are people and then there’s this guy.
Also, as soon as he did return to the POW camp, he began trying to escape. He spent 9 months digging a tunnel with other prisoners, managing to escape, only to be re-captured on the Dutch border.
He also re-joined the military when The 2nd World War broke out.
This reminds me of that Roman General in Punic Wars in the Oversimplified vid
WW1 was so weird with stuff like this, like it was basically the transition between “honourable”, “gentlemen’s” wars between Europeans, and modern warfare where you die in a ditch miles from home with hell all around you.
Gosh. This level of honesty and sticking to deals is like something from the time of chivalric code. I have to ask, how did he get back to Germany?
Honestly a pretty dumb move by Captain Campbell.
Makes me wonder what conditions this POW was kept in. He was an officer with enough pull to make a plea to the German emperor himself, so maybe it wasn’t as bad as what common captured grunts had to endure? That would explain why he willingly returned.
Or was his sense of honor really this strong? I can only wonder.