The life of a Raikeswood camp officer
EDWARD Snee attended a grammar school in Kassel in the centre of today’s Germany. He would eventually spend a total of six years there. His knowledge of German was superb, particularly in the way young people in high schools and universities spoke. Many of the German officers at Skipton were not very much older. Snee seemed to understand the German way of thinking, and the officers perhaps tended to over-confide in him. Sadly for them Snee was first and foremost a British officer. Before the war he had been a schoolteacher in Kent. His natural friendliness was doubtless part of his trai...
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