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Been trying to find out about it all over Google, but it's not much of a help, keeps displaying wrong results or does not provided the answer I'm looking for.
Figure to ask any of you, considered some of you may be history buff.
Is there a reason why do the German guards and the Allied Prisoners-of-War have to be in a similar services?
Why is it that it had to be the Luftwaffe that runs a POW camp for captured RAF and USAAF pilots? Why is it that it had to be the Heer (German Army) that runs POW camp for captured Allied soldiers? Kriegsmarine (German Navy) for captured Royal Navy, US Navy, any other sailors? Army for Army, Air Force for Air Force, etc., why not just put any and mixed captured Allied POWs into any camps?
I'm aware that sometimes a captured Allied POW may be put into the wrong camp (for example, a captured RAF pilot put into an Army POW camp, or naval officer in air force prisoner camp), but that was mainly just temporary until the prisoner can be transferred to the correct camp. But can't find explanation for why do they do it on a like-for-like bias.
Figure to ask any of you, considered some of you may be history buff.
Is there a reason why do the German guards and the Allied Prisoners-of-War have to be in a similar services?
Why is it that it had to be the Luftwaffe that runs a POW camp for captured RAF and USAAF pilots? Why is it that it had to be the Heer (German Army) that runs POW camp for captured Allied soldiers? Kriegsmarine (German Navy) for captured Royal Navy, US Navy, any other sailors? Army for Army, Air Force for Air Force, etc., why not just put any and mixed captured Allied POWs into any camps?
I'm aware that sometimes a captured Allied POW may be put into the wrong camp (for example, a captured RAF pilot put into an Army POW camp, or naval officer in air force prisoner camp), but that was mainly just temporary until the prisoner can be transferred to the correct camp. But can't find explanation for why do they do it on a like-for-like bias.