Since the punishment for escape was not extreme, many of the kriegies considered it a kind of game. So on April 6 when the senior British officer, Herbert M. Massy, was informed that forty-one (the number was later changed to fifty) of his escaping officers had been shot “while resisting arrest or attempting further escape from arrest,” he was stunned. How many were wounded? he demanded to know. No one was wounded, he was told. When word reached the prisoners, they were “plunged into anger, shock, and despair,” said Loevsky. “I’ll never forget the words of our compound commander, Col. Delmar
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