“I don’t like Americans - took me a prisoner in 1942 - made me harvest corn in Tennessee!”
I go to a 4H camp here in Crossville, TN, that was a POW camp for German POws in WWII. It’s on POw Road.
We’ve heard that some of the prisoners were treated so well here, and they liked the area so much, that after the war many returned here to live.
I think my former POW was pulling my leg - I have no doubt they were treated vey well in Tennessee. A little later in the conversation, he mentioned having a bother living Cincinnati and he said that he’d like to visit him. I told him to go ahead “we’re a lot friendlier these days”.
The vast majority of German POWs loved the US. They were fed better than they were in Germany before the war.