When I Landed In America I Realized That .Germany Did Not Stand A Chance In War. 

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Part 3 of diary of a German POW who belonged to Rommel's Famous Afrika Korps and was capture from North African Theater of World War 2, This is link of the playlist

My grandfather was a guard at a German POW camp in Illinois he told me about a prisoner asking him, how come this camp has no fencing? He replied because everyone of these houses has guns the way you prisoners walk and talk you stick out like a sore thumb you most likely will be shot on site if you escape so your more safe here then anyplace else 🤷 My grandfather said when the war ended most of the prisoners wanted to stay in America because they knew from the news and the photos they have seen Germany was in ruins

I live near the American POW Camp in Hearne, TX. The local University used the camp as an archaeology project, then made it a museum. It's fascinating! The Germans built an amphitheater to perform concerts, they harvested onions for the local farmers & created art in prison. Several prisoners never went home because they liked Texas better.

Always glad that as Americans we were able to be civil and humane to POWs. Germany Japan and Soviets were downright sickening in their treatment of prisoners.

My great uncle had a map he kept of his campaign thru Germany. Notes were marked at parts saying things like charred woman with child, piles of bodies, town completely destroyed. Lost Freddy to a mine, Steve shot by sniper. I can not express my appreciation to him nor to all of the remaining members of the greatest generation enough. You all carried us thru a time a can only imagine. It breaks my heart to see what the nation has become.

The true story of a soldier on the losing side is such an amazing perspective that's often lost in most historical records, across the centuries.

I’m told by my grandma that German POW’s were borrowed from the local camp to help on their farm. At the end of the day, they were given beer and returned drunk.

Mr. Arnt was a German POW. He would come and speak at our high school in Indiana. He was a German POW here in camp atterbury located in Indiana. He would come and talk about his time in the POW in camp atterbury. He said he was treated better as A POW in America then what he was treated as a German soldier. He said after the war was over they just released him he went back to Germany got his family and come back to Indiana. He had a house and land only 8 miles away from camp atterbury where he was a POW. My house was about 1 mile away from his. They always spoke German but would talk English to me. They was always so nice to me as a child. I never knew that he was a POW until he spoke at my high school. It always amazed me how he was a POW and still be treated better as a POW then as a German soldier. There children was a little younger then me but they all still live around there still.

The volume issues with this video are incredibly irritating.

While stationed in Germany I met a man who had a similar story. He was given a small chalkboard indicating he was a prisoner of the French. It was marked "FR". He and his buddy knew they would be sent to work in the salt mines in Africa, so they found some chalk and changed them to "USA". They were shipped to a POW camp near Windsor, Colorado. When my mother was young, her family visited the camp and when I was younger we lived next to where the camp had been located. The American Legion in town is one of the old POW barracks which we also lived next to. My mother met with the man when she came overseas to visit us and did a full page story that was published in the newspaper. Small world!

The Fritz Ritz.

We had Geman POWs working our family's sugar cane fields in South Louisiana. They were well treated and never gave the guards any trouble. Some of them were so taken with the area that they moved there after the war and settled down. My dad met some of them and they were nice. Seemed to be grateful for being out of combat

Whenever countries make fun of the US, heres one thing they don’t realize:

For anyone curious, this guy was named Heino Erichsen, and he wound up in Texas after the war (until he passed away in 2018)

My Aunt and Uncle had 15 German pows work for them on their farm. They didn’t want to go back to Germany. They wanted to stay in America

Fun fact african American soldiers had to ride on older worse trains than the German pow and had to be segregated, basically black soldiers were treated worse than German pows

i did TEN years in Federal Prison. It's amazing how earily familiar this story feels.

my great grandparents on my mother's mom's side were both polish immigrants who fled polan during the nazi infestation in the late 30s. they were just there long enough to witness attrocities happen to their friends. when they came over here, they said it was an entirely new world compared to europe. everyone was polite here, almost even outgoing to hold conversations. they were absolutely dumbfounded that they were almost immediately able to own firearms and protect themselves with them if need be. behind ever blade of grass in america lies two things and they always told us they werent sure which there was more of. guns, and opportunities.

i was in the army from early 1969 - early 1971, late 69 to early 71 i was stationed in Germany, the old American Western movies and tv shows were popular, they thought that was how we still lived. i had several people ask me if we were still fighting indian wars

My grandparents lived near a German POW camp in Lamont, California. The German prisoners would work at various orchards, cotton fields, and orange groves during their time and they became well known in the area. They received better living conditions and farmers brought them copious amounts of food for their help in the fields. When the camps closed in 1946, some of the Germans stayed, but most went home. My grandmother told me that a few of them had gotten fat before returning home, the true American way. Lol