By: Meera Selva, Associated Press
LONDON (AP).- A British prisoner of war described Friday how he struck up a forbidden friendship with a prisoner at the Auschwitz concentration camp and then swapped places with him briefly to see first hand how Jewish inmates were starved and tortured inside the notorious Nazi camp. Denis Avey, 92, said he was captured by German soldiers while fighting in north Africa and was taken to a camp near Auschwitz before meeting Jewish prisoners with whom they worked at a nearby factory run by Germans. Under a watchful eyes of guards at the factory, Avey discreetly struck up a friendship with a Jewish prison called Hans, who together with other Jewish prisoners, pleaded with him to tell people in England about their plight. The two agreed to swap places since Avey said he wanted to see