I had an interesting talk with a German POW that was here in Wisconsin during the war and stayed and became an American citizen.
My uncle’s best friend was an American POW in Germany and wouldn’t talk about his experiences.
Many older indivduals have some great experiences and wisdom. I am glad that your children get to spend some time with them.
This gentleman had been in the Wehrmacht on the Eastern front and had spent a year in a Russian prison of war camp. At the end, the Russians opened the camp and told them to go home. He walked across Poland, back to Stuttgart, found his wife in the ruins, and they walked to Bremerhaven and left for America.
When I was stationed in Stuttgart Germany, he refused to visit us there because his hatred of what the Nazis had did was still too great.