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Reginald Eric Pleasants (17 May 1913 – 1998) was a British national who joined the Waffen-SS serving in the British Free Corps during the Second World War. After the war, Pleasants was captured by the Soviets and spent eight years in Siberian gulags.
May 15, 2017 · In the decade before the spectre of World War II cast its creeping shadow across Europe, Eric Pleasants was a headstrong adolescent attending school in sleepy Norwich.
It is fitting for a figure like Reginald Eric Pleasants (or Eric Pleasants, as he called himself) that even his birth date is in doubt. According to his German Occupation registration card in Jersey, he was born on 17 May 1910.
Sep 14, 2021 · Eric Pleasants was not a military man at the start of the war and was removed from the Channel Islands after he was caught by the Germans with fellow prisoner and future BFC member John Leicester burgling the homes of the residents.
Eric Pleasants was unlucky enough to be captured by the Soviets and would spend almost eight years in a gulag. He was spared further punishment when he was finally repatriated in 1954, “but only because he was thought to have suffered enough.”
About Eric Pleasants: A British citizen during World War II who defected to serve in the Waffen-SS. Pleasants was an SS-Schütze in the British Free Corps...
In this compelling autobiography, Pleasants writes of the bizarre and traumatic years he spent as a prisoner of the twentieth century's most notorious dictators. A life-long pacifist, Pleasants spent the early years of the war on occupied Jersey.
