One interesting thing about Tex is that after four months of enforced slimming in Auschwitz he spent happy years back in the British Army, with his old battalion, 10 PARA parachuting, practicing Judo & other physical exercises. He did not just survive the war, he thrived. This suggests very strongly that Jews working the Holocaust® Racket did too. The Holocaust® Industry made billions. Not many of those lovely dollars made it to victims, whether real or alleged.
Tex Banwell
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Tex Banwell joined the British Army in 1931, serving with the Coldstream Guards with whom he saw action against the Pathans and Kashmiris in the mountains on the North-West Frontier. His career during the Second World War progressed to most every style of special forces unit in existence, beginning in 1942 when he joined the Long Range Desert Group, a unit which was not intended to commit sabotage like the SAS that it evolved into, but to spy on enemy troop formations extremely deep into enemy territory. Dressed like Arabs, the Group operated from the most inhospitable desert regions, where even the natives did not go. In 1942 Banwell was captured at Tobruk, but soon escaped in a German half-track. Sometime later he joined the Commandos and was again captured in an operation on Crete, but once again he succeeded in escaping, this time with a fishing boat which he sailed to North Africa. He joined the 10th Battalion [ of the Parachute Regiment ] when the 4th Para Brigade began the process of assembling in the Middle East, and was posted to No.4 Platoon of A Company..........He was ordered to reveal the names of the members of the Dutch Resistance he had been in contact with, and his refusal to talk led to him twice being brought before a firing squad. However the threat of execution was a bluff which he successfully rode out, and so Banwell was sent to sit out the war at Auschwitz concentration camp, where for the next four months he existed on a serving of water and sauerkraut per week. The Red Army reached Auschwitz in March 1945 [ sic ], by which time Banwell's weight was down to 90 pounds, half what it should have been.
Returning home, Banwell continued to serve in the army until during the 1970's, and was likely to have been amongst Britain's most senior parachutists. At the 25th anniversary of Arnhem in 1969, Banwell stood alongside present day paratroopers in a Dakota and jumped once more over Ginkel Heath, formerly DZ-Y. It was his 650th jump, and far from his last because he felt the experience of parachuting kept him "mentally alert". He donated his battle dress jacket to the Airborne Museum Hartenstein, where it is presently on display.
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Tex got about, he really did.
PS He rates a Wikipedia obit, Grauniad obit, New York Times obit, Herald obit plus mentions in Holland at war against Hitler: Anglo-Dutch relations, 1940-1945 by Michael Foot, pp. 117-118 & the BBC's series People's War