Being Proud of Being British...

My YouTube recommendations are currently awash with exaggerated stories of how nice we Brits were to German combatants after WWII. They carry headlines like These German POWs Thought They Were Going to Be Ill-Treated in Britain, but actually… And this is followed by a picture of a nice British Army officer talking to them nicely. There was These German POWs Thought They Would Suffer Badly From the Cold in a British Winter, but actually…, and is illustrated with a picture of a nice British Army officer handing out heavy winter coats. And what about the picture of women in uniform parading through the streets with a nice British Army officer in attendance, accompanied by the headline These Women POWs Were Amazed That They Were Allowed to Parade Through the Streets Without Chains. There’s even one showing captured Japanese ‘comfort women’ in uniform, naturally expecting a fate worse than death, but actually nobody touched them.Or so it is claimed.

It’s all silly propaganda, of course, but there was one I found amusing. These German POWs Thought They Would Be Poisoned in British Camps it began, but actually... And then an obviously AI-generated picture shows a group of wild-eyed German soldiers reaching out in a state of ecstasy for a parcel of… fish and chips (wrapped in sheets of old newsprint as they were in those days.) Fish and Chips was, after all, the proletarian dish which put the ‘Great’ in Great Britain. Didn’t you know?