Nazi POW camps in America - How++ They++ Lived++ Here
American ignorance on what we did with German POWs during World War II is vast, especially among the Jewish Community here in our country. Most didn't know, didn't WANT to know, and feigned ignorance. Hell, maybe they really didn't want to know.
The truth is there were POW camps for Nazi soldiers, sailors, aviators, every type, size, designation, rank, color, nationality that the Nazi empire could flag or conquer during the war. They were captured, floated over here and held captive in hundreds of our prison camps and those in Canada. We had them is POW camps from behind the Philadelphia Airport to the deserts of Arizona.
Nazi Generals to German field soldiers did field work to plant and harvest crops in Louisians to the timber harvests in the Pacific Northwest, before the "environmentalists" could thin our own production. Some Generals were treated special on orders from Washington.
Security for these camps was light. It was almost comical. Escapes were commonplace, but funny thing - they kept coming back. POW policy in Washington was, feed them well, treat them normally, movies, recreation, they had their own ball teams, college courses, if they wanted them, some attended local schools, caught up on the education that they lost when they were drafted in Germany.
In general, the Germans admitted they were better treated, their lives in our POW camps were far better than in the regular army on duty.
One POW camp in Louisians camp lost 17 prisoners who simply walked away from their work detail. The base commender send out a couple of armed jeeps to the nearest town and found the men casually strolling around town, simply bored. They rounded the men up into a local coffee & donut shop for a couple of hours, called for a bus, and that afternoon, went back to the POW camp. Everything worked out just fine.
Some of the Germans volunteered for extra duty on the local farms planting and harvesting crops. Extra pay mounted up, and a few of the men grew attached to the women and later married them. They started families, became citizens, and are still there.
Movie nights at the camps came twice a week, birthday parties, and the like kept up their morale. They started their own newspaper, and a few Nazi hard liners tried to keep the party line going, but by the end of the war, few sought re-patriation, and about half stayed.
Some sought desperate attempts to escape fleeing across the Mexican border with grand plans to steel airplanes and flying to Greenland. All were caught and no records exist of any succeeding.
Some of the German prisoners saw films of the liberation of the death camps and of the slaughter of the Jewish people. When they saw what their fellow German soldiers had done, they became so enraged, they ripped off their own uniforms and burned them.
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The truth is there were POW camps for Nazi soldiers, sailors, aviators, every type, size, designation, rank, color, nationality that the Nazi empire could flag or conquer during the war. They were captured, floated over here and held captive in hundreds of our prison camps and those in Canada. We had them is POW camps from behind the Philadelphia Airport to the deserts of Arizona.
Nazi Generals to German field soldiers did field work to plant and harvest crops in Louisians to the timber harvests in the Pacific Northwest, before the "environmentalists" could thin our own production. Some Generals were treated special on orders from Washington.
Security for these camps was light. It was almost comical. Escapes were commonplace, but funny thing - they kept coming back. POW policy in Washington was, feed them well, treat them normally, movies, recreation, they had their own ball teams, college courses, if they wanted them, some attended local schools, caught up on the education that they lost when they were drafted in Germany.
In general, the Germans admitted they were better treated, their lives in our POW camps were far better than in the regular army on duty.
One POW camp in Louisians camp lost 17 prisoners who simply walked away from their work detail. The base commender send out a couple of armed jeeps to the nearest town and found the men casually strolling around town, simply bored. They rounded the men up into a local coffee & donut shop for a couple of hours, called for a bus, and that afternoon, went back to the POW camp. Everything worked out just fine.
Some of the Germans volunteered for extra duty on the local farms planting and harvesting crops. Extra pay mounted up, and a few of the men grew attached to the women and later married them. They started families, became citizens, and are still there.
Movie nights at the camps came twice a week, birthday parties, and the like kept up their morale. They started their own newspaper, and a few Nazi hard liners tried to keep the party line going, but by the end of the war, few sought re-patriation, and about half stayed.
Some sought desperate attempts to escape fleeing across the Mexican border with grand plans to steel airplanes and flying to Greenland. All were caught and no records exist of any succeeding.
Some of the German prisoners saw films of the liberation of the death camps and of the slaughter of the Jewish people. When they saw what their fellow German soldiers had done, they became so enraged, they ripped off their own uniforms and burned them.
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