Nearly 400,000 Germans were held in British prison camps during the war. An astonishing number - 20,000 - decided to stay on and make their homes in Britain. How were they accepted? What do they do now? Is a German accent still a barrier?
In this programme Cliff Michelmore talks to four of the 20,000 who stayed. All four live in mid-Wales. Heinz Pleva runs a pub. Karl Hillebrand, awarded two Iron Crosses for his services to Hitler, is a salesman. Franz Beernbrook and Max Tschackert are timber workers. With Heinz it's not his German accent that is difficult to understand, but his Welsh. He's known in Pontypool as Taffy