German POWs Couldn’t Believe Eating Meat, Fruit And Chocolate In American POW Camps

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• KI

  @kieranororke620 · 1 year ago

  The scale of US production of almost anything during WWII was simply phenomenal.

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• SU

  @Sugamer · 1 year ago

  It shows you what brain washing and conning an entire country does to the population of a country.

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• BE

  @beegee1960 · 1 year ago

  It is a universal truth that the best way to rid yourself of of an enemy is to make him your friend. Simplistic and not always possible but a truth nonetheless.

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• EN

  @EnigmaE.473 · 1 year ago (edited)

  As an American growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, I remember the abundance and how lucky we were.  I wondered what happened when the German POWs returned to Germany.  So glad to hear they returned and used the knowledge learned in the camps to help their people back home.  Thanks for telling their story here.    P.S.  I love German beer. :)

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• CR

  @CraigGrant-sh3in · 11 months ago

  My father was in WWll. In the 1990s or early 2000s he drove to visit one of his army buddies who lived up by the St Lawrence River in New York. They went to a bar for a couple of beers. They were talking about things that happened while they were there and a man sitting next to my father said something to them. My father asked if he was over there and he replied " Yes, but on de udder side" . He was in the German army and was taken prisoner by the Canadians. He was sent to a POW camp in Canada. He said as soon as he had his first breakfast he knew he was coming back after the war. Bacon sold him and the fact that he had never seen that much food. At the end of the war he went home but returned and then came to the US

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• MA

  @MasterofScrutiny · 1 year ago

  I shared this with my grandson. It's so amazing that every American should hear this story.

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• PE

  @peanugbug · 1 year ago

  My grandfather was a POW for nearly 10 months in Germany before he escaped along with 11 of his fellow POWs & made their way back to Allied/American lines. Along the way they ran into 2 Germans - conscripts who didn't agree with the war & were trying to hide & possibly defect if they got the opportunity. My grandfather made a deal that they'd vouch for them with our side if they'd act as guards for the group doing a camp transfer when they encounter other Naz¡s. It worked. When he got home to Minnesota he was traumatized, malnourished & psychologically wounded. He was also incredibly pissed off when he first saw & heard how the German POWs were being treated here in contrast to the tortuous hell he'd been dealt by the Naz¡s. He did eventually come around & understood why it was imperative we treated their POWs humanely & well.

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• AU

  @autonomousperson · 11 months ago

  The war is fought with soldiers, the battle is won with culture and humanity. Without light we create fire.

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• WW

  @WW2SHADOWFRONT · 11 months ago

  My grandfather used to tell me stories from when he was captured near the end of WWII. He wasn’t German, but he ended up in an Allied camp and said the same thing — the shock of being treated like a human again after months of fear and hunger. He said the first real meal — bread, coffee, even a small piece of chocolate — felt unreal. It’s strange how mercy can hit harder than war itself.

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• DR

  @dreamingbear9908 · 1 year ago

  America at its best…united, kind, empathic. It changed the world. My grandfather in law had German pow’s who worked on his farm. Another farmer we knew, worked with Lithuania to find good, solid, used farm tractors to help modernize their agriculture so they could produce more food. It is in American hearts to behave this way. Now, we need to maintain the peace and turn our largesse to our own people with food, housing, and healthcare. It really isn’t too much to ask. We’ve done it for others numerous times before.

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• CO

  @ColeBoyCole · 1 year ago

  &quot;In the end America&apos;s greatest weapon was not the atomic bomb but apple pie&quot;. <br><br>That hit so hard knowing how far we have fallen.

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• SU

  @susanhawk8730 · 1 year ago

  My father was in the US army stationed in Germany. &nbsp;My family lived in a attic apartment owned by a German family. &nbsp;They were very kind to us. &nbsp;The German husband had been a German POW in Louisiana. &nbsp;He talked about how well the POWs were treated. &nbsp;They were even allowed to go into town.

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