“They Are Not Monsters”: How a Plate of Bacon and Eggs and a Texas Thanksgiving Shattered the Worldview of German Female POWs. NU
“They Are Not Monsters”: How a Plate of Bacon and Eggs and a Texas Thanksgiving Shattered the Worldview of German Female POWs CAMP FLORENCE, TEXAS — The Texas heat in June 1945 was a physical weight, a suffocating blanket that pressed…
“The Strongest Prison is Made of Lies”: How Canada’s “Open” Camps and 3,000-Calorie Meals Defeated the Nazi Ideology. NU
“The Strongest Prison is Made of Lies”: How Canada’s “Open” Camps and 3,000-Calorie Meals Defeated the Nazi Ideology LETHBRIDGE, ALBERTA — In June 1940, Franz Weber stood at the edge of a Canadian prairie, waiting to be shot. He was a…
When German POWs Reached America It Was The Most Unusual Sight For Them. NU
When German POWs Reached America It Was The Most Unusual Sight For Them ITTER, AUSTRIA — If you pitched this story to a movie studio, they would likely reject it for being too unrealistic. A medieval castle in the Austrian Alps….
The Tractor That Defeated the Third Reich: How American Agriculture Shattered a German POW’s Worldview. NU
The Tractor That Defeated the Third Reich: How American Agriculture Shattered a German POW’s Worldview Moorhead, Minnesota – June 3, 1944 The morning light filtered through the gaps in the weathered barn boards, illuminating specks of dust dancing in the…
“I Can’t Breathe” – A 18-Year-Old German POW Boy Arrived With Punctured Lung – Doctors SHOCKED. NU
“I Can’t Breathe” – A 18-Year-Old German POW Boy Arrived With Punctured Lung – Doctors SHOCKED The boy is 18 years old. He is standing in front of an American military doctor in a prisoner of war processing station somewhere…
German Child Soldiers Hid in the Barns in America — Not to Escape, But to Sleep with the Puppies. NU
German Child Soldiers Hid in the Barns in America — Not to Escape, But to Sleep with the Puppies February 14th, 1945. 3 miles east of Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. The temperature hovers just below freezing. A dairy farmer named Harold…
Why Patton Forced the “Rich & Famous” German Citizens to Walk Through Buchenwald. NU
Why Patton Forced the “Rich & Famous” German Citizens to Walk Through Buchenwald On April 16th, 1945, the city of Weimar in Germany was the picture of a quiet spring morning. The sun shone gently, and if you had been standing along the…
When 600 Germans Surrounded Him — He Called Artillery on Himself to Save Them All. NU
When 600 Germans Surrounded Him — He Called Artillery on Himself to Save Them All At 0700 on January 24th, 1945, the world around Houssen, France looked like it had been carved out of ice and ash. The trees stood bare and…
November 22, 1944, SHAEF Headquarters in Reims: What Patton Did at Metz — and What Didn’t Add Up. NU
November 22, 1944, SHAEF Headquarters in Reims: What Patton Did at Metz — and What Didn’t Add Up Metz in the Rain: What Eisenhower Heard When Patton Took the “Impregnable” Fortress This article is a dramatized reconstruction based on the…
“I Can’t Close My Legs” — The Exam Room at Camp Swift. NU
“I Can’t Close My Legs” — The Exam Room at Camp Swift July 1945, Camp Swift, Texas. The war in Europe had been over for weeks, but the heat in Texas didn’t care about surrender documents or victory parades. It sat…