John J miller
Mentioned before I was in an Officer Club, might have been in England(?)
with my Ensign Uniform and some one there told me that all the bar tenders
were German POWs. As I recall there were 3 or 4 of them.
Also my understanding is that the Nazis did treat Allied POWs including Jewish
ones well, apparently because of retaliation should they lose the war which many
after the defeat at Stalingrad, thought likely. In fact I distinctly read
somewhere a
German General thought the same after the entire Army surrendered there.
Further more stupid Hitler was blamed for the loss because he wouldn't allow the
General in charge to retreat when his troops were in such poor condition and
couldn't be supplied sufficiently to keep on fighting.
Stan
-----Original Message-----
From: John J. Miller <seaspark@xxxxxxx>
To: sparkscoffee <sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Mon, Dec 26, 2016 11:57 am
Subject: [sparkscoffee] US POW
Greetings
May be of interest to some.
German POWs in the US had it pretty good, also in Britain and later in
France.
In the USA they had good rations, treatment, etc., because we did not
want any mis treatment of our men captive in Germany.
When the war ended and all prisoners of the Germans were accounted for,
things rapidly changed and conditions grew a lot harder for German POWs.
Three prisoners convicted of murdering one of their own were hanged at
Leavenworth, (Still buried there). This caused quite a stir because
hostilities were ended and then they were executed. This is all detailed
in a book but I don't recall the name. I believe there was a TV movie
about it. You can probably research on Google.
POW in U.K. were able to work on farms, etc. and they were better off
than the poor guys fighting a losing war.
Some German soldiers had to serve after the war as Pows as a form of
punishment, they were better off then returning to Germany '46-'47. I
knew a fellow who served his time in France working on a flax farm, he
also agreed that it was better than returning home immediately.
73
JJ Miller
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