Original sentence: Through the month of June, 1940, over 60,000 British prisoners of war, captured at Dunkirk and Northern France were marched (many died along the way) to Trier which became a staging-post for British soldiers headed for German POW camps
Edited sentence: The population of the once great city, poured scorn; jeered at the unfortunate men as they were paraded through the once proud streets to the taunts of Trier's inhabitants.Through the month of June, 1940, over 60,000 British prisoners of war, captured at Dunkirk and Northern France were marched (many died along the way) to Trier which became a staging-post for mistreated British soldiers heading for German Prisoner-of-War camps.Where once slaves had left Germany destined for Rome, now a vast new slave army was heading eastward into the heart of Europe's newest empire, the Third Reich (Dunkirk, the men left behind, Sean Longden, ISBN 978 1 84529 977 4