WWII Airmen Silenced, Abandoned By US Gov't for Decades

Guest: Frederic “Ric” Martini, Author of “Betrayed: Secrecy, Lies and Consequences” In 1944, Frederic Martini’s plane was shot down over occupied France. He was captured by the German SS and held at Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Soldiers were supposed to be given certain protections as prisoners of war under international law. But Martini and more than 160 other Allied airmen were denied that status and instead held at Buchenwald where they were tortured, starved and forced to work as slave labor. When Martini and the other American soldiers held at Buchenwald came home from the war, the government locked all evidence of their ordeal away as top secret. The cover up meant that Martini would spend the rest of his life being told by the Veterans Administration that psychological trauma and injuries due to the time he spent in Buchenwald were all in his head, because as far as the government was concerned, he’d never been there. Frederic Martini died 13 years ago and his son Ric has now published a book detailing the real truth behind the Buchenwald airmen and their betrayal by the US government.