this is the fate of all history that isn't put into a public collection, it becomes private, and it becomes traded, commodity to be sold,

it is weird to think that slavery being considered wrong (within larger social consciousness) only really came about in the last 300 years or so, and even then for a while the empires that profited the most off the trade, Britan, France had to spend the next 100 years or so still fighting against it, and even now an illegal slave trade exists, including places like Saudi Arabia and Qatar who have workers so impoverished and underpaid they may as well be slaves

I'd imagine another concern was less what the prisoners would do and more what the public would do, its not much of a secret that there was a lot of misguided animosity

my great grandfather surrendered to British forces and was taken to britan as a POW, in Scotland specifically, and he was allowed to go to a local village, and after the war he worked on the railways, I don't really know that much about him, but he apparently never returned to Germany,

che doesn't deserve to be remembered, cos he sucked

every little scrap of information that can be found about the anglo-saxons is useful, as it is a truly long-lost civilisation