This is so much bullshit I can't resist. What about killing escapees
after they were caught which occurred during the "Great Escape". How
many German solders went on dates(in the US) with americans. Of course
excesses occurred  and I apologize for any mistreatment of German
solders. Also the treatment of Polish and Russian soldiers by the
Germans have been well documented as bordering on the treatment of the
Jews in the Death camps. The soldiers were starved and worked to death
just not exterminated. And the treatment was returned in kind by the
Russians with German solders.

Andreas Schmidt wrote:
> Although this is again very OFF TOPIC I'd like to answer this time.
>
> German POWs after 2nd World War were NOT treated very well! Most of them
> suffered like POWs in German camps before, I have to say.
>
> I know my father's stories who was in hospital when the U.S. soldiers took
> over. He lost all his diaries - the only personal things he possesses in
> this moment, aged 20, very heavily wounded.
>
> Near Bad Kreuznach (where I lived a long time) was a U.S. POW camp
> (Bretzenheim/Nahe). My mother told me horror stories on the conditions
> there for the German soldiers, guarded by U.S. soldiers. For example, they
> shot into the crowd (and killed POWs) because a woman threw some potatoes
> in the mud the Germans had to live in holes. Such stories have also been
> told in some documentation on this topic here in Germany.
>
> POWs of the U.S. were not better treated than the German soldiers did with
> their POWs especially in Russia or Poland. I'd like to say that this
> professor's sentence may be true for some camps (probably based in the
> U.S.) but definitely not for the majority of camps. POWs always have bad
> times ... as we can see today ...
>
>
> Best regards,
> Andreas Schmidt
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> "German POWs were treated very well," said Arnold Krammer, a Texas A&M
> history professor who has written several books on German POWs. "In some
> cases they were given wine and beer with every meal. Of course, prison is
> still prison. They were bored and unhappy."
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> I'd like to know more about what 'prison' was to them.  They were better
> off in some ways than the Americans who lived there, but I only have
> stories, not news reports.
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