Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, October 10, 1942. POW Revolt and Hot Dogs.

Monday, October 10, 2022

Saturday, October 10, 1942. POW Revolt and Hot Dogs.

The Saturday Evening Post featured a cover illustration of an American GI showing an English girl a hot dog.

Hot dogs, while certainly of German origin, as an oddly American item show up in the British television series Foyle's War. Apparently they are truly American, as they were a trope during the war at the time, it seems.

A POW revolt occurred at Bowmanville, Ontario, when German POWs (mostly officers) were ordered gathered to be manacled in response to German's doing the same to Canadian POWs captured at Dieppe, which itself was due to a German misunderstanding regarding the treatment of their POWs.

Nobody was killed in the uprising, but there were a number of serious injuries.

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