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Former German soldier recalls life at Crossville, TN POW camp
Elizabethton Star ^ | Tuesday, October 19, 2021 | Staff

Posted on 10/30/2021 11:28:57 PM PDT by citizen

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To: citizen

Compare and contrast treatment of the German pows then with the Jan 6th people today . And the guards today are “African migrants” no less.

https://thelibertydaily.com/disturbing-letter-from-jan-6-political-prisoner-details-deep-states-efforts-to-destroy-patriots/


41 posted on 10/31/2021 4:20:20 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: wardaddy

Didn’t the POWs build the working model of the Mississippi River for the Army Corps of Engineers?


42 posted on 10/31/2021 4:37:49 AM PDT by meatloaf
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To: wardaddy

My Scoutmaster had been captured in Japan after bailing out of a bomber. Another dad in our troop had been a survivor of the sinking of the Indianapolis. The importance of survival skills, discipline and loyalty to your buddies were very prominent.


43 posted on 10/31/2021 4:38:10 AM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: equaviator

Maybe not Frankenmuth proper, but there were several in the area. About a month ago there was a show about them on the CMU or Delta College PBS station that went into great detail about them.


44 posted on 10/31/2021 5:25:27 AM PDT by wingnut1971 (FJB)
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To: citizen

Also in Bayview. A few returned to settle in north Idaho after the war.


45 posted on 10/31/2021 6:22:46 AM PDT by D Rider ( )
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To: citizen

We had them near my hometown in NC


46 posted on 10/31/2021 6:27:47 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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To: citizen

“where he was interred for two years.”

Really?


47 posted on 10/31/2021 6:30:50 AM PDT by dljordan (Slouching towards Woketopia)
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To: citizen

I did a lot of reading about these guys, including those up in Canada. For many, the best thing that ever happened to them, unlike ours.

One thing that did infuriate me though, was that I read, in the South, German POWS sat in the downstairs part of the movies, while black GIs had to sit in the balcony.


48 posted on 10/31/2021 6:35:30 AM PDT by Oatka
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To: dljordan

I noticed that too. He must have been really good at holding his breath.

There once was a young man named Clyde
Who fell in a privy and died.
Along came his brother
Who fell in another,
And now they’re interred side by side.


49 posted on 10/31/2021 6:37:33 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: citizen

That POW camp in Crossville is where we have our annual quilting retreat. It’s gorgeous, quiet, and the history is so interesting. If you MUST be a prisoner, that would be the place.

I’ve heard that the prisoners liked the area so well that they later established their lives there. I don’t know if that’s true, or just lore.


50 posted on 10/31/2021 6:40:53 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (When government fears the people, there is liberty.)
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To: citizen

They even had one up at Ft. Lewis (now JBLM). I saw a story where one of the German prisoners carved a very nice model boat for the camp commander as a gift.


51 posted on 10/31/2021 6:51:59 AM PDT by hoagy62 (DTCM&OTTH)
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To: vaskypilot
Government property became surplus big time after the war. My father had a chicken coop on his retirement farm that the previous owners had bought from the Japanese-American internment camp in Delta, Utah. It was quite nice for a chicken coop, but I don't imagine so nice for family.

There were veterans with business acumen who bought surplus Liberty ships and started their own shipping line. The Boy Scouts and 4-H were two of the largest buyers of former POW camps.

The story of German prisoners not wanting to go home dates back to the American Revolution. When our daughters were attending college in Virginia's famous Shenandoah Valley, we stayed at a budget hotel called "Hessian House." It had a modernistic front connected to a large stone building originally built by Hessian POWs during the American Revolution to house them and later was converted to a tavern on the trail road. The multiple rooms in the large stone building made it ideal for such a repurposing. A local lady told us that many of the POWs who built it chose to stay and farm or work as stone masons in the area after the war ended. One of the officers even sent for his wife and children.

A number of them had been skilled in stone masonry work before becoming a hireling of George III which, I guess, is why the building was still being used more than two centuries later.

52 posted on 10/31/2021 7:00:48 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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"In the 1940s East Texas sawmills and paper mills lost many of their loggers to the armed forces fighting during World War II. The problem was solved with a unique exchange. German soldiers who had been captured in Europe were brought to the U.S. and conscripted as loggers. Today, the unusual trade is remembered by seven Texas historical markers placed near German POW camps at Alto, Center, Chireno, Huntsville, Lufkin, San Augustine and Tyler." http://www.texasescapes.com/BobBowman/Nazis-in-East-Texas.htm
53 posted on 10/31/2021 7:07:56 AM PDT by DFG
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54 posted on 10/31/2021 7:08:41 AM PDT by DFG
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http://www.texasescapes.com/AllThingsHistorical/Nazis-in-East-Texas-BB105.htm


55 posted on 10/31/2021 7:09:23 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

“When the Afrika Korps Came to Texas”: World War II POWs in the Lone Star State”

https://www.humanitiestexas.org/news/articles/when-afrika-korps-came-texas-world-war-ii-pows-lone-star-state


56 posted on 10/31/2021 7:10:14 AM PDT by DFG
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57 posted on 10/31/2021 7:19:17 AM PDT by x
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“Hennes, who is now 92”

He would have been 15-16 years-old when the war ended so he must have joined the military at 14 or 15.


58 posted on 10/31/2021 7:25:44 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Were State Dept. Havana Syndrome victims the guinea pigs of 5G/graphene oxide "vaccine" tests?)
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To: wardaddy

That is a very cool story. Thanks for sharing that.

The only one I have is the story of one of my Uncles calling my grandfather to let him know his troop train was going to pass through Shreveport and to call the tamale lady and buy everyone she had. They gave him a grocery sack full of them and he passed them out to all his buddies.

After the war they asked him about how his pals liked the tamales. “They didn’t like them. Those yankees don’t know the difference between good food and dirt”.


59 posted on 10/31/2021 7:34:08 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Were State Dept. Havana Syndrome victims the guinea pigs of 5G/graphene oxide "vaccine" tests?)
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To: citizen

My stepfather grew up in Michigan, and he picked fruit alongside German POWs. He was a young teenager during WW II.


60 posted on 10/31/2021 7:40:49 AM PDT by Cecily
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