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<blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 4046323" data-attributes="member: 5412"><p>I'm not sure your history is correct. It was exactly the opposite. The US treated the German POW's humanely in hopes that letters back home would influence the German captors to treat the Allied POW's in their camps with the same respect, and that didn't happen for the most part. </p><p>I live 14 miles from an ex German POW Camp in Tonkawa Oklahoma. </p><p>The prisoners were allowed outside the fences to assist farmers in the fields, had dances put on with local ladies as a highlight occasionally and so on. </p><p>Here is a link detailing how good life was for the German Prisoners. I knew some of the old farmers that had them not as slave labor, but were paid if they wanted to work so they could buy items from the camp canteen. </p><p>In the link below there is a report of a snitch that got murdered, with the people involved in the murder convicted and executed in Leavenworth Ks. </p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.blackwelljournaltribune.net/articles/12661/view[/URL]</p><p></p><p>There was another POW area at the Leavenworth Military prison on Ft Leavenworth, which is right next to the Federal Penitentiary, which was my last active duty station before discharge. Home of the Command and General Staff College.</p><p>During WWII there were German POW's at the military prison on base which houses naval and army prisoners. Again, a snitch was outed and killed. The people responsible were executed and buried way back in the woods on the base with the graves having headstones but not maintained in any way. </p><p>I was rabbit hunting with my beagle one day and found those headstones. I didn't know at the time that the prisoners from Tonkawa were included in that location. </p><p>This thread had me do the research. </p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.basehorinfo.com/news/2008/may/28/wwii_german_pows_buried_fort_leavenworth/[/URL]</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile in Germany.</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/american-pows-at-berga-concentration-camp[/URL]</p><p>POW camps varied. Blacks were segregated, Jewish POW's put to hard labor and most suffered through food shortages and clothing shortages in cold weather.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dennishoddy, post: 4046323, member: 5412"] I'm not sure your history is correct. It was exactly the opposite. The US treated the German POW's humanely in hopes that letters back home would influence the German captors to treat the Allied POW's in their camps with the same respect, and that didn't happen for the most part. I live 14 miles from an ex German POW Camp in Tonkawa Oklahoma. The prisoners were allowed outside the fences to assist farmers in the fields, had dances put on with local ladies as a highlight occasionally and so on. Here is a link detailing how good life was for the German Prisoners. I knew some of the old farmers that had them not as slave labor, but were paid if they wanted to work so they could buy items from the camp canteen. In the link below there is a report of a snitch that got murdered, with the people involved in the murder convicted and executed in Leavenworth Ks. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.blackwelljournaltribune.net/articles/12661/view[/URL] There was another POW area at the Leavenworth Military prison on Ft Leavenworth, which is right next to the Federal Penitentiary, which was my last active duty station before discharge. Home of the Command and General Staff College. During WWII there were German POW's at the military prison on base which houses naval and army prisoners. Again, a snitch was outed and killed. The people responsible were executed and buried way back in the woods on the base with the graves having headstones but not maintained in any way. I was rabbit hunting with my beagle one day and found those headstones. I didn't know at the time that the prisoners from Tonkawa were included in that location. This thread had me do the research. [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.basehorinfo.com/news/2008/may/28/wwii_german_pows_buried_fort_leavenworth/[/URL] Meanwhile in Germany. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/american-pows-at-berga-concentration-camp[/URL] POW camps varied. Blacks were segregated, Jewish POW's put to hard labor and most suffered through food shortages and clothing shortages in cold weather. [/QUOTE]
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