Princess Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace, photo Cecil Beaton. London, UK, 1942
Posted on 06/28/2022 6:43:48 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
My 2rd cousin according to my family tree.
“… his shoes are laced or buckled.”
They’re buckled. He has a neat peak sewn into his strap.
Also, look at his desk. I’d like to see that on Antiques Roadshow.
“A lot of the POWs chose to stay here after they were released rather than go back to Germany.”
I’ve read stories where many of the POWs in the midwest would work the farmer’s fields during the day - iirc they would almost be friends with the family eating with them, etc.
Found an interesting article below. After the German POWs went back to Europe some ended up in harsh camps in England or France. Or in Germany with no food. The farmer received numerous letters from his former POW workers. “Dear Mr. Teichman - It must be time to harvest your peaches - I don’t suppose you could get me back to help you!?”
Solzhenitsyn went to the gulag for a joke about stalin’s mustache
I wanted to do this kind of thing for a long time, but I was never sure how to get my foot in the door. I love history, and the old photos are amazing as they are, but you get another entire dimension seeing them in color.
I saved the link for a friend who owns a vintage shop.
Things were pretty much the same here as they were in the article you linked. The POWs were treated well - - much better than our soldiers were treated by the Germans.
The Camp Forrest POWs worked on farms and at factories and other businesses in the area. They worked on the farm where I live, which has been in my husband’s family since 1865. The POWs enjoyed working here because his grandparents were still alive and being of German descent, they spoke German and Grandma cooked German food.
Though he was born several years after the war ended, my husband remembers several of the POWs coming by to visit his dad and grandfather for several years afterwards.
When Camp Forrest closed down in ‘46, they sold everything they could sell. My husband’s grandfather and father bought three buildings - one being a hutment POWs lived in. I’ve seen photos of a couple of them, taken back in the day, and they were pretty nice. They were allowed to decorate them and make them feel as much like homes as possible.
Princess Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace, photo Cecil Beaton. London, UK, 1942
Otto von Bismarck, 1871
“One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans.”
Otto von Bismarck, 1871
Banana Docks, New York, 1910s
Frederick Douglass
A Face from Auschwitz
Addie Card, factory worker, 1910
Lamp appears to be spun brass, therefore hollow. I’ll bet that it held oil inside and had to be topped of almost every day.
The Nine Kings
The Nine Sovereigns at Windsor for the funeral of King Edward VII.
Standing, from left to right: King Haakon VII of Norway, Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria, King Manuel II of Portugal, Kaiser Wilhelm II of the German Empire, King George I of Greece and King Albert I of Belgium.
Seated, from left to right: King Alfonso XIII of Spain, King-Emperor George V of the United Kingdom and King Frederick VIII of Denmark. This is probably the only photograph of nine reigning kings ever taken.
Breaker boys, 1911
Breaker Boys were used in the anthracite coal mines to separate slate rock from the coal after it had been
brought out of the shaft.
I was wondering too if that was Margaret.
Still, he is the only man to have been a US Representative, US Senator, US Ambassador, US Secretary of State AND US President! The famous Monroe Doctrine, that sought to keep new European colonialism out of the Western Hemisphere, was as much his creation as it was President Monroe's. That said, it was also the implicit backing of Great Britain and the Royal Navy that gave its teeth in those early years!
That’s beautiful.
Thank you for taking the time to respond. I was wondering if maybe it had a large reservoir in the table itself, something like that.
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