ABSTRACT
The unwounded British prisoners captured at Arnhem and Oosterbeek were quickly transported to Germany. Treatment by the German captors on the battlefield was mostly good, but there were some incidents involving battlefield atrocities and shootings during attempted escapes that should be recorded. The worst incident occurred on Saturday 23 September, when a group of mostly officer prisoners taken at the Arnhem Bridge made an escape attempt while being taken on an open lorry to Germany. The Germans agreed, because it allowed them to concentrate on their own wounded. Colonel Warrack and the medical staff and wounded left behind at Arnhem and Oosterbeek were then transferred to this hospital. The hospital remained in being, entirely under British control, for exactly a month, although the walking wounded and other less critical cases were steadily transferred to Germany. The men who fought at Arnhem are angered by the facile use of the phrase 'the failure at Arnhem'.
