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Kingston,Mi | My father was an aircraft mechanic in the south during the war, one day while he was on a cigarette break he heard a german pow speaking flawless english. dad ask him about it, he said his parents had taken the entire family back to Germany when Hitler ask them to come home, had been drafted into the German Army even tho he was a U.S. citizen having been born here. When he heard the first American voice in North Africa he rapidly left the German Army with his hands over his head. He said doing earthwork with a shovel in America as a POW beat being a German Infantryman hands down.
There was a POW camp in Caro Michigan on the grounds of the Tuscola County Fairground, the POW's worked in the sugarbeet fields and as enlisted men were not interested in escape. Its been said that the guards often slept while"guarding "the German POW's, if anyone came along ,one of the POW's would wake the guard. | |
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York Nebraska, 1940's
