Many French prisoners of war had obtained German civilian suits or work clothes, and were flooding into cafés, cinemas and pubs. Outside Innsbruck, they were seen sunning themselves in the deckchairs on the terrace of the Berg Hotel. Propagandists might exhort their national comrades to keep their distance from the foreigners in their midst but they were soon developing ever more complex ties to them, by turns opportunistic, exploitative and intimate.
