Ecperience a WW2 POW Camp

[Grant Fan]

My boyfriend send me this link and I though you all might be interested in it. I think it sounds fun but unfortunatly for me it is for men only.
http://www.powescapes.com/home/

 

[Treetopflyer]

No thanks!

SERE school was enough for me.

 

[Carlisle Blues]

Macabre

 

[Paisley]

Only in America would someone pay $3,500 plus airfare to spend a week in a mock POW camp. [huh]

 

[Grant Fan]

SERE school was enough for me.

Haha That's what my boyfriend said to me. He send the link to me and was pretty much like "hey you should do this it's like mini SERE school"

 

[Paisley]

Your boyfriend wants stay home while you to go to a mock Nazi POW camp? Instead of going somewhere together with room service and a view?

 

[Carlisle Blues]

"hey you should do this it's like mini SERE school"

Macabre

 

[reetpleat]

Not sure whatI would think of this. Quite bizarre and could easily be seen as in bad taste. On the other hand, I would do it if offered for free to me. It sounds kind of cool.

Only thing I would want to add is a run through the woods, having shoots out with Nazis before being rescued by the underground, a beautiful female polish resistance leader with whom I have a tryst before being betrayed by her jealous lover, and a fat buffonish german seargent, a silly monocle wearing comandant, and a tunnel for easy trips into Berlin and back before role call.

Quite remarkable, one way or another. I would actually be quite intrigued to work for this company as an actor.

 

[Paisley]

It reminds me of the STanford Prison Experiment, which was ended after six days because the guards were becoming sadistic and the prisoners were mentally breaking down.

http://www.prisonexp.org/

You couldn't pay me to experience a WWII POW camp.

 

[Grant Fan]

Your boyfriend wants stay home while you to go to a mock Nazi POW camp? Instead of going somewhere together with room service and a view?

Haha No Paul is stationed in Japan so it's not like I would be leaving him here and going. And he knows I am a strange one and think it would be interesting.

 

[Creeping Past]

This reminds me of Vivian Stanshall's Sir Henry at Rawlinson End.

The movie features a POW camp, housing two faux-German prisoners of war, which is kept up for sporting purposes in the grounds of Sir Henry's crumbling stately home.

Here's the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jthwTgRG72A

 

[David Conwill]

Sounds like the premise for Hostel IV or something. I'll stick to a DVD of The Great Escape .

-Dave

 

[reetpleat]

Would be a great premise for a murder mystery. A murder happens at the camp and a cop has to go in undrcover to ferret it out or something like that. And it all goes back to real nazis, collaborators, and pows, maybe relatives of the men in the camp. I better get working on the screenplay.

 

[MrBern]

masochism or education?

Only in America would someone pay $3,500 plus airfare to spend a week in a mock POW camp. [huh]

Seems pretty expensive for an experience in Poland.
Is it a kooky executive gift for someone doing research for a movie?

Just visiting Auschwitz' exhibits for an afternoon is emotional enough...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aushwitz

 

[Atterbury Dodd]

Sounds fun to me--If I had more money I'd do it.

 

[amynbebes]

Interesting, but totally gives me the heebie jeebies. My grandfather was a pow of the japanese for over 3 years and I guess growing up hearing horror stories jades me a bit

 

[Carlisle Blues]

Interesting, but totally gives me the heebie jeebies. My grandfather was a pow of the japanese for over 3 years and I guess growing up hearing horror stories jades me a bit

I agree this whole idea conjures up thoughts of this:

Not my idea of fun...[huh] [huh]

 

[Babydoll]

Interesting, but totally gives me the heebie jeebies. My grandfather was a pow of the japanese for over 3 years and I guess growing up hearing horror stories jades me a bit

Ditto, ditto, ditto!

I don't see how anyone would want to willingly experience being a POW. My grandfather was in the Bataan Death March, and it left him a very different man. Not in a good way, either.

 

[Mr. Clark]

This has already made the rounds over on the WW2 reenactors board. But as bizarre as it sounds, the idea is not original. I remember reading a few years back about a similar event in Russia, but instead of a German camp, the concept was being taken into custody and interrogated by the KGB. It was held in a real former KGB "installation" and they employed many former KGB operatives. And there was a waiting list for this activity. And the majority of the paying participants were Russians. Now THAT'S macabre!

 

[dr greg]

YOU VILL HAVE FUN!

I mentioned this once before, but apparently there is/was a mock concentration camp on some horrible windswept island off Norway where wayward jewish kids were sent to get some idea of what their grandparents had gone through....read it somewhere but don't know the details.....