-Alemaster
Astonished German POWs roll through Texas expecting brutality—and find coffee, wages, and cowboys. This episode traces how enemies became ranch hands, neighbors, and, eventually, Americans.
- A train window view: Amarillo, chaps, and culture shock
- Camp life: hot showers, scrip pay, Western swing
- Cotton fields & cattle drives with ranchers who shake hands
- The Papago Park tunnel…and a very dry “river”
- VE Day goodbyes—and surprising returns as immigrants
What happens when propaganda slams into Texas hospitality? The answer rewrites what captivity—and humanity—can look like.
I watched that a few days ago and it is immensely saddening - the world shown there is one destroyed by decades of rising matriarchal influence, and the poison of unrestricted immigration.
ReplyDeleteMy grandpa had a farm close to POW Camp Atlanta in Nebraska. He had several German POW's working for him. At war's end several of them asked if he would help them move to the US.
ReplyDeleteDad was doing construction on the east coast and had several POWs working with him. Said there were no problems, they all got along
ReplyDeleteFrequented a Geust Haus in Germany, early 80's. The owner and the group of men who were there most evenings had all been captured at Kasserine Pass, held at Ft Dix and worked the farms in South Jersey. It was about 2 years before they let on they spoke English. We butchred the German language, but always attempted. Good times
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