My grandfather had a brother who was a gunner on an airplane & who was shot down and captured by German locals and then turned over to the German army as a POW. Wouldn’t talk about it unless it was another vet and his niece, my mother is only aware of just this little bit I shared. She also shared that the locals were brutal and he was treated better as a POW.
There’s a more recent video of a guy who served in Afghanistan and remembers seeing a red headed Muslim that was Chechen. He said they were told to keep one bullet for themselves as the Chechens would skin you alive.
It's really not a good to bail out or get shot down over the people you just bombed. They can be a bit emotional about the whole thing ... I wouldn't be surprised if, as an aviator, he ended up in a Luftwaffe POW camp. They tended to be less nasty than other groups, particularly to American or British POWs.
Note that I put it as "less nasty", not as "better" or "good" ... it's all degrees of nastiness.