What German POWs Saw in America That Convinced Them the War Was Lost
WWII America
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German POWs in America saw a country that had not been bombed, a harvest that still came in, and rations equal to the American soldier's. By May 1945 the Army counted 371,683 of them on American soil. Some concluded the war was lost, and some never did. The Reich would never again control what those men knew about America.
This documentary follows the Afrika Korps surrender in Tunisia on May 12 and 13, 1943, the Liberty ship and rail journeys to camps at Mexia, Concordia, Hearne, Ruston, Trinidad, and Papago Park, the eighty-cent-a-day canteen coupon labor system, the 1929 Geneva Convention, the murders of Johannes Kunze, Hugo Krauss, and Werner Drechsler, the hanging of fourteen men at Fort Leavenworth, and the Army's Special Projects Division, Fort Kearney, and the newspaper Der Ruf. It separates what the prisoners documented from what legend added.
Every figure comes from the record: Arnold Krammer's scholarship, National Park Service and Army history sources, museum and university studies, and the prisoners' own recorded accounts. Where sources conflict, the video says so.
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He worked with mayors, chiefs of police etc.
He said, in 2 years only one admitted he had been a NAZI party member, a photographer who said that party membership was the only way to get work.
My Father, a brevet major by then, added, there was serious, dangerous resistance, which he described to me.
He said Germany was still in 1947 a dangerous place.
You can see much the same in Iran, Syria, Iraq and Gaza today.
I know it is spelled corp. It’s pronounced core.
Look at me. Nothing better to do than correct AI.
The problems outlined in this podcast is today with re-educating captured Palestinians and other sworn Jihadists is very similar.
not MeXia😊
For those interested in proper pronunciations, Hispanic language pronounces X's and J's are pronounced with an H sound.
Jalapeno is pronounced "halapeno" as an example.
The word is pronounced ..."core".
Corps = core
Say it right.
What German POWs Saw in America That Convinced Them the War Was Lost
WWII America
33,370 views
German POWs in America saw a country that had not been bombed, a harvest that still came in, and rations equal to the American soldier's. By May 1945 the Army counted 371,683 of them on American soil. Some concluded the war was lost, and some never did. The Reich would never again control what those men knew about America.
This documentary follows the Afrika Korps surrender in Tunisia on May 12 and 13, 1943, the Liberty ship and rail journeys to camps at Mexia, Concordia, Hearne, Ruston, Trinidad, and Papago Park, the eighty-cent-a-day canteen coupon labor system, the 1929 Geneva Convention, the murders of Johannes Kunze, Hugo Krauss, and Werner Drechsler, the hanging of fourteen men at Fort Leavenworth, and the Army's Special Projects Division, Fort Kearney, and the newspaper Der Ruf. It separates what the prisoners documented from what legend added.
Every figure comes from the record: Arnold Krammer's scholarship, National Park Service and Army history sources, museum and university studies, and the prisoners' own recorded accounts. Where sources conflict, the video says so.
Subscribe for the definitive history of the United States in the Second World War — new documentaries every few days.
#WW2 #WorldWarII #GermanPOWs #AfrikaKorps #WWIIHistory #POWCamps #FortLeavenworth #GenevaConvention #MilitaryHistory #USAInWW2
the farms. This lady farm owner took some POWs to the library after a days work to learn. The language and management, sales, etc. She pushed the POW's
to do the most with what they had to give. When they where repatriated they were thankful.