I’ve never understood why hunger strikes would have any effect. Can jails and prisons force-feed inmates? You don’t want to eat, don’t eat. “It’s your body”!
Wow, indeed. I was “over there” in Luxembourg, France and Germany for the 60th, with my dad and other soldiers from his outfit and their families, meeting citizens who lived through it. Incredible experience hearing the stories direct from those who lived it. One guy had dinner with the people whose barn he hid in before being captured by the Germans and imprisoned for 7 months, wearing his uniform without a change of clothing the entire time. A German officer actually stopped a soldier who was about to execute him on the spot after his capture. Soldier was upset because the man had killed his friend a few minutes prior.