“You’re Not Animals” – German POW Children Shocked When Texas Cowboys Removed Their Chains. VD
“You’re Not Animals” – German POW Children Shocked When Texas Cowboys Removed Their Chains Ropes in the Cattle Car (West Texas, 1945) Chapter 1 — The Heat and the Rope West Texas, August 1945. The train stopped on a siding…
German POW Generals were Shocked by Their First Sight of America. VD
German POW Generals were Shocked by Their First Sight of America The Fog Lifts: A General’s Awakening (Norfolk, Virginia — June 1943) Chapter 1 — Arrival in the Fog The transport ship slid silently through the morning fog, its hull…
“This Can’t Be Wartime” — German POW Women React to American Town Streets. VD
“This Can’t Be Wartime” — German POW Women React to American Town Streets Saturday in Enemy Country A World War II story set in Texas (about 2,000 words), told in six short chapters Chapter 1 — The First Lie Breaks…
American Medics Found a 5 Year-Old German Boy Weighing Only 32 Pounds—What They Discover Shocks Them. VD
American Medics Found a 5 Year-Old German Boy Weighing Only 32 Pounds—What They Discover Shocks Them Is This Real? A World War II story set in Bavaria, May 1945 (about 2,000 words), told in six short chapters Chapter 1 —…
German POWs Break Down After Tasting Clean Water for the First Time in Years. VD
German POWs Break Down After Tasting Clean Water for the First Time in Years The Taste of Water A World War II story set at Camp Roswell, New Mexico (about 2,000 words), in six short chapters Chapter 1 — The…
“Sleep Without Your Clothes” — The Single Wartime Order That Shocked German Women POWs Beyond Words. NU
“Sleep Without Your Clothes” — The Single Wartime Order That Shocked German Women POWs Beyond Words “SLEEP WITHOUT YOUR CLOTHES” — THE ORDER THAT LEFT A CAMP IN SILENCE One sentence. No explanation. And a room filled with disbelief. In…
Were Prisoners Behind Barbed Wire. NU
Were Prisoners Behind Barbed Wire A Story History Barely Whispered For decades, history books told the same familiar version of the end of World War II: collapsing regimes, advancing armies, ruined cities, and prisoners guarded behind fences of steel and…
The war was over, but the silence hadn’t ended. It was 1978 when war correspondent Daniel Mercer found the folder. NU
The war was over, but the silence hadn’t ended. It was 1978 when war correspondent Daniel Mercer found the folder The Greatest Native Sniper to Ever Fight in World War II The war was over, but the silence hadn’t ended….
“Don’t Leave Us Here!”—Japanese Women POWs Cried as Flames Closed In. NU
“Don’t Leave Us Here!”—Japanese Women POWs Cried as Flames Closed In Some moments in war announce themselves with thunder. Others begin with smoke. This story belongs to the second kind. It unfolded far from the front lines, in a place…
“Its Not Possible!” — German Women POWs Reach U.S. Soil and Are Stunned by American. NU
“Its Not Possible!” — German Women POWs Reach U.S. Soil and Are Stunned by American The Moment Land Appeared That Wasn’t Supposed to Exist For weeks, the ocean had been their entire universe. Gray water. Gray sky. Gray thoughts. The…