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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Please respond
to Brice Yokem
"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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