Oh I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside

[stuey]

Another interesting side story regarding WWI. Not a particularly relaxing "holiday camp" when you know where you're going at the end of your stay. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-32133099

[Elina]

How horrifying stuey for these men, supposedly thought 'well' enough after a spell in camp to be sent back to face the very same thing that put them there in the first place. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_shock

[stuey]

Really terrible. They had already been wounded physically and/or mentally, and yet they had to face going back. And that nonsense about a white feather: sickening!

[wired]

Thanks Stuey, didn't know about this one.

[stuey]

Isn't Eastbourne quite a popular sea-side holiday attraction in the UK?

[Jackdaw33]

Eastbourne is where wealthy retired people go to live out their last days at the seaside.

[SirOracle]

Jackdaw.......It is also known as God's waiting room. :-)

[stuey]

So it's not the same as Blackpool or Brighton, for example, where flocks of tourists descend upon in the Summer

[SirOracle]

Only sophisticated ones Stuey.!!!

[Jackdaw33]

Not in the slightest!

[stuey]

OK, thanks. I wonder why the camp was built on the east coast where, I've read, the cacophonous roar of the bombardments could be heard. Surely further inland would have been preferable.

[Peter Pedant]

Funnily enough stoo

There is a holiday camp link to the WW2
Long term prisoners in Germany were ( from 1940) given a holiday near Berlin to destress from war psychosis and all that sort of thing - in rotation.
Smallish groups were rotated to a camp near Berlin which had less barbed wire and better food. My father even as a recaptured escaper was not excluded.

Imagine my family's surprise when we read it now as a recruiting ground for the British Free Corps ( British renegade SS - which had a membership often as many as six or five ). Here - scroll down to "later recruits"
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/britishfreecorps.html

My father certainly didnt remember it like that ....

the five or six recruits came to sticky ends
hanged, shot etc.... by the goodies that is

[stuey]

Very interesting, Peter. It's amazing how many, what I call, side-stories there are branching off in the most circuitous paths regarding the two World Wars...And all others, I suppose.

[Jackdaw33]

Those British who supported Nazi Germany were given short shrift at the end of the war. Although not guilty of any atrocities they were convicted of treason inasmuch as they had adhered to the King's enemies. The penalty for this was death. These included William Joyce (Lord 'Haw Haw') who was convicted for making broadcasts from Nazi Germany, and John Amery, the son of a Tory MP and brother of a later Tory MP, who was described by the executioner as 'the bravest man I ever hanged.'