So much was covered up during WWII that is only starting to come out in the last few years.
History as always told us that for the most part Nazis treated US & Brit POWs fairly well. Guess there is more to the story.
***ahemcoughcough*** Nazis didn't treat anybody well. They started the war, they murdered and plundered tortured everyone they met, and they enjoyed doing it because it was in their nazi DNA. Schadenfreud and all that, only militarized.
The ordinary German soldier who wasn't necessarily a nazi? He wanted to go home alive just like everyone else, the thing that made him different is that he was from a culture where one was expected to follow ALL orders... and he knew that being sent to the eastern front was a death sentence.
If he was really ahead of his peers, he knew that the most fortunate thing that could happen to him was to be captured by the Americans.