Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers
Captives Clean Up Debris
Hundreds of German prisoners, who have volunteered to work for their captors for pay, are busy clearing up the rubble and mess they left when they tried to demolish the port of Cherbourg before they surrendered. Many of these Herrenvolk (look this up, the word had meaning then) are guarded by Negroes with carbines and machine guns, but they seem quite happy with their lot. For them, as for the people of Normandy, the war at last is over.