A German Jew in the Glider Pilot Regiment
Of the 10.000 men who landed at Arnhem, over 9 days 1,400 were killed and more than 6.000- about a third of them-wounded- were captured. It was a bloody disaster. The remarkable Louis Hagen, an enemy 'alien' who had escaped to England having been imprisoned and tortured in a Nazi concentration camp as a boy a few years earlier, was one of the minority who made it back.
