What was the motivation for a german pow to work?

The main motivation for a German prisoner of war (POW) to work was to stay alive. It was very simple, if the prisoner of war was working then he/she was going to live, if the prisoner of war was not working then he/she would have been killed. In order to survive, the German prisoners of war had to work, and they did so, as they wanted to live. What was driving them the most was the hope that the Germans would be defeated and that they will be released, so that they can return to their normal lives. Lot of prisoners did managed to stay alive for that they, and the Germans did got defeated, so they were released and started with their lives all over again.

1. the townshend acts of 1767 “threaten the country with poverty and ruin.”

at a town meeting held at faneuil hall in boston on october 28, 1767, boston freeholders and residents discussed the implications of the brutal townshend acts levied against the colonists. the townshend acts were a set of four acts passed by the british parliament in the summer of 1767 in order to generate revenue for the crown (through duties on goods such as lead, glass, paper, and tea) as well as exert british control over the increasingly rebellious colonists.

during the oct. 28 meeting, the bostonians found:

the excessive use of foreign superfluities is the chief cause of the present distressed state of this town, as it is thereby drained of its money: which misfortune is likely to be increased by means of the late additional burthens and impositions on the trade of the province, which threaten the country with poverty and ruin.

as a result, the citizens unanimously voted to boycott all british-made goods.