_127 Religion "Religion played an important role in the lives of many POWs with many prisoner\u2019s diaries recording thanks to God for their survival and prayers for an end to the war and their release.\r\n\r\nWhen in captivity the religious needs of POWs were met by chaplains from the Royal Army Chaplains\u2019 Department (RACD) who had also been taken prisoner. In November 1942 a total of 86 chaplains of all denominations from the RACD were POWs serving the 77,000 other men held captive in Europe at that time." eulac3d Image IMAGE "Religion played an important role in the lives of many POWs with many prisoner\u2019s diaries recording thanks to God for their survival and prayers for an end to the war and their release.\r\n\r\nWhen in captivity the religious needs of POWs were met by chaplains from the Royal Army Chaplains\u2019 Department (RACD) who had also been taken prisoner. In November 1942 a total of 86 chaplains of all denominations from the RACD were POWs serving the 77,000 other men held captive in Europe at that time."