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词条 Horace Greasley
释义

  1. Autobiography

  2. Himmler photograph

  3. References

  4. External links

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| name = Horace Greasley
| image = HoraceGreasley.jpg
| birth_name = Joseph Horace Greasley
| birth_date = {{Birth-date |25 December 1918}}
| birth_place = Ibstock, Leicestershire
| death_date = {{Death-date and age|4 February 2010 | 25 December 1918}}
| death_place = L'Alfàs del Pi, Alicante, Spain- Costa Blanca
| other_names = Jack Greasley
| known_for = Claims to have escaped and returned to his POW camp over 200 times to meet with his love interest
| marriages = Kathleen (????-????) divorced
Brenda Greasley (1975–2010) His death
| children = 2
}}Joseph Horace "Jim" Greasley (25 December 1918 – 4 February 2010) was a British soldier in the Second World War who was captured in May 1940 by the German Wehrmacht and later became famous for claiming that he escaped from his camp over 200 times in the conduct of a clandestine love affair, returning into captivity each time.[1] He was the subject of a best-selling[2] autobiography which has been criticised for sensationalism.[3] He was also the subject of controversy for having claimed that he was the prisoner of war shown in a photograph staring at Heinrich Himmler, when the prisoner in question is identified elsewhere as a Soviet soldier.[4][5]

Autobiography

In Spring of 2008, ghostwriter Ken Scott was introduced to Horace Greasley, aged 89, so he could finally have his World War II memoirs recorded. Scott stated that he only acted as Horace's fingers to type the book as Horace suffered from extreme arthritis.[6] The book was finished and published by the end of 2008 by Libros International, and gives Greasley's account of his decision to go to war, his capture, struggles, near-death experiences, brutality of the SS, the unique love of Rosa Rauchbach, the escapes, and his liberation.[6]

Guy Walters has criticised the book for exaggerating the dangers which Greasley faced stating, "Working camps for NCOs such as Greasley were not the tightly-guarded places conjured up by our collective imagination, which is weaned on images from Colditz and The Great Escape. In fact, bunking out of one's camp to fraternise with local girls was hardly unusual, and certainly not 'escaping' in the sense most of us understand it."[3]

Himmler photograph

The February 2010 Telegraph obituary[1] published a photograph[4][7] captioned "Greasley confronting Heinrich Himmler (wearing the spectacles) in the POW camp".[8] The photograph and its description was republished by other news sources.[9][10]

Guy Walters asserted categorically that the soldier in the picture was not Greasley, stating that the picture is held by the US National Archives and the caption details show it was taken in Minsk (in Belarus) in mid-1941, that it was taken by a photographer for a propaganda film and identifies the soldier as Soviet from his cap, and that the officers in the picture are the same officers who appear in the film with Himmler.[7]

References

1. ^{{cite news | title = Horace Greasley – Telegraph | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/7223148/Horace-Greasley.html | accessdate = 8 June 2012 | work = The Daily Telegraph| location=London| date=13 February 2010 }}
2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ken-scott/the-ghostwriters-lament_b_4347770.html |title=The Ghost-writers Lament |date=28 November 2013 |first=Ken |last=Scott |website=HuffPost |accessdate=21 December 2014}}
3. ^{{cite news| url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2346193/Could-twisted-holocaust-fantasists-How-people-making-memoirs-witnessing-Nazi-crimes.html | location=London | newspaper=Daily Mail | title=Could there be anything more twisted than these Holocaust fantasists? How more and more people are making up memoirs about witnessing Nazi crimes |first=Guy |last=Walters |accessdate=21 December 2014 |date=21 June 2013}}
4. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/newsreview/features/article1197382.ece |title=Blood, tears, sweat and tall tales |newspaper=The Sunday Times |first=Guy |last=Walters |date=20 January 2013 |accessdate=21 December 2014}} {{subscription required}}
5. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.ushmm.org/learn/timeline-of-events/1939-1941/1939-1941 |title=1939–1941 – Timeline of Events |website=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |accessdate=21 December 2014}}
6. ^Greasley, Horace (2008). Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell?. Libros International. pp. Synopsis. {{ISBN|978-1905988808}}.
7. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/course-s-Horace-photo-Himmler/story-17815382-detail/story.html |title='Of course that's my Horace in photo of Himmler' |newspaper=Leicester Mercury |date=10 January 2013 |first=Laura |last=Elvin |accessdate=21 December 2014}}
8. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.google.ru/search?q=horace%20greasley%20himmler&newwindow=1&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=qcqcUva3FYHl4gSQzIHIBg&sqi=2&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1024&bih=501#newwindow=1&q=horace%20greasley%20himmler%20telegraph&tbm=isch&facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=ORtoGTP8C15ooM:;mcx3Ipo9YKcVdM;http%253A%252F%252Fi.telegraph.co.uk%252Fmultimedia%252Farchive%252F02376%252Fhorace_2376454b.jpg;http%253A%252F%252Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%252Fculture%252Ffilm%252F9627322%252FBritish-PoW-escaped-200-times-to-meet-German-lover.html;620;387|title=horace greasley himmler – Поиск в Google|accessdate=12 February 2017}}
9. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/horace-greasley-british-prisoner-of-war-1393453 |title=The great escapist: Film to celebrate British prisoner of war who broke out of Nazi camp 200 times.. to meet girl |newspaper=Daily Mirror |date=23 October 2012 |first=Martin |last=Fricker |accessdate=21 December 2014}}
10. ^{{cite news| url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2221840/British-prisoner-war-fled-Nazi-camp-200-times-meet-German-sweetheart.html | location=London | work=Daily Mail | title=The greatest escapist: British prisoner of war fled Nazi camp 200 times to meet his German sweetheart |first=William |last=Cook |date=23 October 2012 |accessdate=21 December 2014}}

External links

  • Himmler in Minsk
  • Heinrich Himmler inspecting Russian POW camp
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