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TheDJ955 t1_ivcmjme wrote

Reply to comment by Ok_Kaleidoscope1630 in They fled persecution in Nazi Germany. Then the British put them behind barbed wire by lanzkron

Yep, one of the POW’s was a guy named Bert Trautmann, detained in Belgium then transported to Essex, he was the equivalent of a sergeant in the Luftwaffe with the 35th infantry and received an Iron Cross, he later became a professional footballer for Manchester City, he even has a statue in the general area of the stadium.

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Mein_Bergkamp t1_ivdtz3i wrote

The reason he's got a statue is that he played during the era of no substitutions and so played through a broken neck while winning the FA Cup for City.

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