Posted by Goose on May 29, 2021 at 11:16:27 from (166.182.87.95):
In Reply to: Worker shortage posted by 37 chief on May 29, 2021 at 08:30:10:
Seems to me I recall hearing stories about German POWs in WWII working for farmers in the Hastings, Nebraska area. I believe they actually boarded with the farmers they worked for.
For the most part, they worked hard and behaved themselves. They knew they had a cushy deal compared to being in a regular POW camp, or even still being in combat.
I understand some, if not most, simply stayed in the community here in the U.S. when the war ended. They had a better future here than back in what was left of Germany.
That being said, the flip side is Bob Braham, one of Britain's top fighter aces in WWII was eventually shot down over occupied Denmark 10 months before the war ended and spent the final months of the war in a German POW camp. His stay wasn't overly unpleasant.
The camp was staffed mostly with German soldiers who had been wounded in combat and relieved of combat duties. At that point, they knew Germany was not going to win the war, and prisoners and staff alike were all just marking time until the war ended.
History hasn't dwelled on it much, but there was a huge difference between the fanatical SS Storm Troopers and the German regular army soldiers whe were just doing their job.
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