Oct 16, 2026 · 37 min · 10 segments
Jason Hurdle of Waterloo discovered a hidden crawl space in his garage, which had gone unnoticed for 14 years, containing a safe and a box of documents while cleaning and preparing for Halloween…
Brett DavidsenHost
tell the folks that are listening, what actually are these documents? What's on these documents?
These these are actual firsthand accounts of what the POW, the prisoners of war from the camps in Germany have lived through, have witnessed, have just I mean, everything.
There's questions on the front page, and they have to answer all the questions.
And basically, you know, have they seen executions? Have they seen murders? Have they seen, you know, anything? It's, you know, public exhibition or exposure to ridicule of prisoners of war.
they were in um camp lucky strike in france which actually was the camp Then they named what they did was when these camps became when they liberated, these camps are all named after cigarette brands.
There was there was a few others, but this is the one that they mainly that almost every one of these papers has come from was Camp Lucky Strikes.
So when they were freed, they go to Camp Lucky Strike, and they're given these questionnaires to recall the conditions and the treatment in the POW camps.
Yes, and what that does is the reason that these were brought forth was because the Germans actually crossed over what they called the Geneva Convention.
The Geneva Convention in the military is something to protect our POWs, and basically it's a way of how we treat And every POW, it doesn't matter if it's American, France, whoever, Germany, the way we treat our POWs, and everyone is supposed to follow this, it's supposed to be a standard, is what they call the Geneva Convention.
And what happened was all of this, if you ever get to read these papers, which I urge everyone to check them out, but if you ever get the opportunity to see these papers, and you read some of the things, every one of these is considered a war crime against the Geneva Convention.
So in all actuality, if we went back to Germany and found any of these commandants and whatever, they can still be prosecuted because of the fact that these were actual war crimes that they committed.
So this is our government trying to document whether war crimes had been committed.
so when you got these documents and you're thumbing through them, do you realize at that moment these are historically significant?
Reading them and really looking into them and feeling what I felt as I was reading them and realizing and understanding more every time I read one, I felt I had something very special in that, yes, I needed to get them somewhere where they needed to be preserved properly, not just thrown on a shelf somewhere.
tell the folks that are listening, what actually are these documents? What's on these documents?
These these are actual firsthand accounts of what the POW, the prisoners of war from the camps in Germany have lived through, have witnessed, have just I mean, everything.
There's questions on the front page, and they have to answer all the questions.
And basically, you know, have they seen executions? Have they seen murders? Have they seen, you know, anything? It's, you know, public exhibition or exposure to ridicule of prisoners of war.
they were in um camp lucky strike in france which actually was the camp Then they named what they did was when these camps became when they liberated, these camps are all named after cigarette brands.
There was there was a few others, but this is the one that they mainly that almost every one of these papers has come from was Camp Lucky Strikes.
So when they were freed, they go to Camp Lucky Strike, and they're given these questionnaires to recall the conditions and the treatment in the POW camps.
Yes, and what that does is the reason that these were brought forth was because the Germans actually crossed over what they called the Geneva Convention.
The Geneva Convention in the military is something to protect our POWs, and basically it's a way of how we treat And every POW, it doesn't matter if it's American, France, whoever, Germany, the way we treat our POWs, and everyone is supposed to follow this, it's supposed to be a standard, is what they call the Geneva Convention.
And what happened was all of this, if you ever get to read these papers, which I urge everyone to check them out, but if you ever get the opportunity to see these papers, and you read some of the things, every one of these is considered a war crime against the Geneva Convention.
So in all actuality, if we went back to Germany and found any of these commandants and whatever, they can still be prosecuted because of the fact that these were actual war crimes that they committed.
So this is our government trying to document whether war crimes had been committed.
so when you got these documents and you're thumbing through them, do you realize at that moment these are historically significant?
Reading them and really looking into them and feeling what I felt as I was reading them and realizing and understanding more every time I read one, I felt I had something very special in that, yes, I needed to get them somewhere where they needed to be preserved properly, not just thrown on a shelf somewhere.
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