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Explanation From Original OP:
When Axis POWs arrived in Canada in droves the Canadian Government simply bought each and every one of them a railway ticket to the town which had their POW camp and put them on ordinary passenger trains. Because they had ordinary tickets on ordinary trains they were given meals in the dining cars same as everybody else. It’s reported that some POWs protested the lavish meals insisting they were prisoners and were not supposed to be treated so well
if you want to see what i mean by “Lavish” this blog has a Canadian Pacific dining car Menu from 1937
https://tracksidetreasure.blogspot.com/2016/04/dining-car-menus.html
My favorite tidbit about the POW camps for German soldiers in Canada is that the camps generally weren’t fenced. Like, you can escape if you want I guess, but you could walk for weeks and guess what? Still Canada!
Most German POWs were happy to stay because the camps fed them far better than what they’d been getting as German soldiers in the European theater after years of rationing. Some felt guilty about how good they were eating, because they knew their civilian family members back in Germany were getting even less.
Many of them migrated to Canada after the war as well.
Canadian psyops at its finest.
expertly weaponized politeness
I’m enjoying all the canadaposting
Fuck man, I’d be confused today. Food? In a train? Did I accidentally enter the Bordbistro (on-board restaurant that most German “highspeed” trains have)? I don’t have that kind of money!
