Eight years ago Britain re-starts treating its captives well, Germany doesn't

 

The German 4th Panzer Army under Manstein launched operation Winter Storm, to try a break through the Soviet forces surrounding General von Paulus's 6th Army trapped in Stalingrad. The offensive made some gains but ran out of momentum and the Red Army counter-attacked the Axis left flank, overwhelming by the Italian 8th Army. Hitler refused Manstein's request for Paulus to try to break out of Stalingrad; Paulus himself was reluctant.

The threat to disregard the Geneva Convention in respect of German and British PoWs triggered by the shackling of captives in a commando raid proved to be short-lived. The Swiss government proposed to both sides that they discontinue shackling prisoners in camps. The British and Canadian governments almost immediately announced their agreement and restraints were removed from German PoWs.

Whilst Germany and Britain reverted to treating their uniformed, regular  military captives in civilized fashion, no such consideration was being shown to civilians or special forces in German power. The Royal Marines captured by the Germans in the course of the canoe-borne raid on German ships at Bordeaux were killed out of hand in fulfillment of the 'commando order.' Sixteen Italian frogmen captured after a highly successul attack on shipping in the port of Algiers were treated were treated as normal PoWs.

The Jewish community in Britain mounted a day of fasting and prayer to draw attention to the 'Satanic massacre' of Jews in Nazi occupied territory. It passed without comment from the British government, which had long before set its face against making an issue of this particular Nazi crime.