Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Part 17 ( Second Last Part ) of diary of an enlisted man in Germany's army, who served on both the Eastern and Western fronts and was wounded four times before being captured in 1944. After a highly unpleasant stay in a French POW camp, he was turned over to American authorities and sent to the U.S., where he spent a comparatively comfortable 14 months in several POW camps. Repatriated in 1948, He worked as a dental technician until his death. This is link of the playlist th-cam.com/play/PLGjbe3ikd0XEB0tw8c5PNFvQWdL0-eYAy.html Link of part 1 th-cam.com/video/r0biN5f4_N4/w-d-xo.html Link of part 2 th-cam.com/video/Zt1NBHVPNrU/w-d-xo.html Link of part 3 th-cam.com/video/Cp0Mzh9Q5wE/w-d-xo.html Link of part 4 th-cam.com/video/X_lBu9c-wOg/w-d-xo.html Link of part 5 th-cam.com/video/EPCJLhYQNf0/w-d-xo.html Link of part 6 th-cam.com/video/TDqEeT1BZLQ/w-d-xo.html Link of part 7 th-cam.com/video/BxZCDasoXwU/w-d-xo.html Link of part 8 th-cam.com/video/dl72ezOQiYo/w-d-xo.html Link of part 9 th-cam.com/video/tlCY2Ev1mjY/w-d-xo.html Link of part 10 th-cam.com/video/n7sWURlHS78/w-d-xo.html Link of part 11 th-cam.com/video/RlRQCeVAJUg/w-d-xo.html Link of part 12 th-cam.com/video/ch5LrfRc-qc/w-d-xo.html Link of part 13 th-cam.com/video/GLXM6IiuuLw/w-d-xo.html Link of part 14 th-cam.com/video/PwCtPPri6Eg/w-d-xo.html Link of part 15 th-cam.com/video/1Tj9sTO0XDQ/w-d-xo.html Link of part 16 th-cam.com/video/bsnbwDFLreA/w-d-xo.html
My dad was a camp guard for German POW's. He said they were very industrious; they were always making things. Some made all wood coo-coo clocks that they sold to camp personnel or the locals they work for.
My uncle received $40 per month (combat pay) while in France after D-Day. He was charged $10 per month out of that for a $10,000 life insurance policy- this he netted $30 per month. These guys got $20 a month as prisoners of war in stateside camps and COMPLAINED about it. Geez.
I met 4-5 former POWs when I was stationed in Germany in '81-'82. All of them said they enjoyed their time stateside and lucky to have been captured by us. Now, how much of that was faded memories or was just wanting to impress an American GI in Germany...who knows?
Apparently no one ever informed the soldiers the condition Germany was in by 1945. They didn't know it, but they were actually living better as captured POWs in America than they would be as free men in Germany. At least in America they had food, roofs over their heads, electricity, and running water- things Germany wouldn't reclaim until the 1950s. The Allies's relentless aerial bombings of German cities; plus Stalin's orders to the Red Army to destroy the infrastructure in Germany to prevent them from rebuilding before the Soviet Union could rendered Germany little more than a vast swath of land in central Europe, hundreds of square miles large, a giant pile of smoldering rubble
A fascinating account, though I had to chuckle when he talked about the "electric floor polishing machine." I also learned about floor buffers while in the military, and discovered how difficult they are to operate! And they _do_ hop, if you apply too much pressure in either direction. 🙂
While I understand their desire to get back to Germany as soon as possible, but what were they going back to? The cities and infrastructure were in ruins, the crops had not been planted in the spring for harvest in the fall, and people were starving as the US struggled to get food to not only to Germany but to the countries devastated or affected by the war. Even Great Britain didn't end rationing until mid-1954. There return would put an even greater strain on food.
I was not just a concern, the Geneva convention required that all POWs to be repatriated to their home country. At least in My area of the US, Wyoming, a lot of the German POWs returned to marry into the German families they work for as ranch and farm hands.
@@transmasterthey figured out that America was a better country than what they would return to . Especially if it was in the Soviet realm of occupancy.
"Stuffed like garbage cans the day after Christmas!" These guys got something of a tour of the United States, although all they really needed was a tour of their food for dinner. That told them all they really needed to know about the United States. Still, it would have been interesting to know their reaction to a tour of an American factory turning out Sherman tanks, B29 bombers or whatever.
@SeattlePioneer: Personally, I would have given "those guys" a tour of the sprawling tobacco and cotton fields of Dixie topped off with visits to shacks the sharecroppers lived in. And let them join them in the fields for some stimulating sunup to sundown fun for at least 6 days a week...
@@dawnrogers5829 How is working from sun up to sun down under the hot sun for six or seven days a week for next to nothing "punishment" for hardened soldiers who probably committed lots of massacres back in Europe? It was good enough for millions of black men, women, and children in down in "Dixie" USA at that time.
@@dpeasehead -The average German soldier didn't massacre anyone, that's the SS you're thinking of and those guys were actively hunted for actual punishment. The Geneva Convention is pretty clear on how you treat and care for POWs and even how much they're to be paid for work they perform......" millions of black men, women, and children in down in "Dixie" USA at that time" were not covered under Convention rules.
@@dawnrogers5829 You need to miss me with the "black people were subhuman and were not protected by any law" stuff. That's the very ideology that underpinned both American jim crow AND the nazi regime that man was fighting for before he ended up in a POW camp. But you are too blind to see it...Americans seem to never tire of creating justifications for their evils and racist practices and for their double standards when it comes to justice and mistreatment of humans whom they define as less then... Read some history every now and then. It was not just Hitler and a couple of SS units that drove "the final solution." The "average German soldier" was deeply involved in massacres and atrocities of every kind and scale all across Europe from 1939 until the closing days in the ruins of Berlin. Whatever that individual's personal responsibility may or may not have been, a victory or a draw for the regime which he served would have been a nightmare for a very large part of humanity. Apparently, you would have been on the safe side of that divide.. My point is that he was granted special treatment in a foreign country in a part of that country which was in the middle of an ongoing large scale human rights violation whether you choose to see it as such or not..Like I said, American moral blindness is among the very worse.
I wonder if a sort of credit score system was used to repatriate POWs? When my dad was stationed overseas during WW2, they had a credit system. Rank did not affect your standing on when you got a place on a transport bound for America. The more credits you had (the longer you were out of country) the sooner you got a place on a transport. My dad was lucky. He would have had to wait months to get transport but a friend and fellow officer offered him a spot on a small US Army transport boat (yes, the army had lots of small boats) that was used to move cargo around the Marianas Island chain that was headed back to San Francisco since the war was over. He had to stand watch during the crossing. The boat was small! It was great for getting around in shallow water I imagine but crossing the Pacific in that little tub was another matter. It was damaged in a storm while they were crossing and they had to put in at Hawaii for repairs.
I enjoy it when we get in Starbucks, lines or McDonald’s and Burger King lines and somebody always start this pay it forward. So I don’t know how many people do this but by the time I got up to pay for whoever’s food and drinks for behind me I popped out about $25 and I ask the cashier. How long is it been going on and she said at least 10 vehicle.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Part 17 ( Second Last Part ) of diary of an enlisted man in Germany's army, who served on both the Eastern and Western fronts and was wounded four times before being captured in 1944. After a highly unpleasant stay in a French POW camp, he was turned over to American authorities and sent to the U.S., where he spent a comparatively comfortable 14 months in several POW camps. Repatriated in 1948, He worked as a dental technician until his death.
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My dad was a camp guard for German POW's. He said they were very industrious; they were always making things. Some made all wood coo-coo clocks that they sold to camp personnel or the locals they work for.
My uncle received $40 per month (combat pay) while in France after D-Day. He was charged $10 per month out of that for a $10,000 life insurance policy- this he netted $30 per month. These guys got $20 a month as prisoners of war in stateside camps and COMPLAINED about it. Geez.
I met 4-5 former POWs when I was stationed in Germany in '81-'82. All of them said they enjoyed their time stateside and lucky to have been captured by us. Now, how much of that was faded memories or was just wanting to impress an American GI in Germany...who knows?
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Apparently no one ever informed the soldiers the condition Germany was in by 1945. They didn't know it, but they were actually living better as captured POWs in America than they would be as free men in Germany. At least in America they had food, roofs over their heads, electricity, and running water- things Germany wouldn't reclaim until the 1950s. The Allies's relentless aerial bombings of German cities; plus Stalin's orders to the Red Army to destroy the infrastructure in Germany to prevent them from rebuilding before the Soviet Union could rendered Germany little more than a vast swath of land in central Europe, hundreds of square miles large, a giant pile of smoldering rubble
A fascinating account, though I had to chuckle when he talked about the "electric floor polishing machine." I also learned about floor buffers while in the military, and discovered how difficult they are to operate! And they _do_ hop, if you apply too much pressure in either direction. 🙂
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He survives, is treated compassionately, is fed well, and is assigned easy work, yet he still whines about his fate.
Spare me
He's also 22.
@@edasher06 And a soldier. If a soldier or Marine isn't bitching about something, there must be something is wrong.
@@SecNotSureSir - You won't see an Airman bitching because those in the Air Force are treated with kid gloves.
@@kobra6335 We complained. Like, if the tent's AC goes out
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While I understand their desire to get back to Germany as soon as possible, but what were they going back to? The cities and infrastructure were in ruins, the crops had not been planted in the spring for harvest in the fall, and people were starving as the US struggled to get food to not only to Germany but to the countries devastated or affected by the war. Even Great Britain didn't end rationing until mid-1954. There return would put an even greater strain on food.
I was not just a concern, the Geneva convention required that all POWs to be repatriated to their home country. At least in My area of the US, Wyoming, a lot of the German POWs returned to marry into the German families they work for as ranch and farm hands.
@@transmasterthey figured out that America was a better country than what they would return to . Especially if it was in the Soviet realm of occupancy.
Return to family and loved ones of course.
@transmaster same thing in Minnesota. I knew a few of them.
Your timeline is fucked up. No one starved in Germany until AFTER the war was over..1945 to 1948.
"Stuffed like garbage cans the day after Christmas!"
These guys got something of a tour of the United States, although all they really needed was a tour of their food for dinner. That told them all they really needed to know about the United States.
Still, it would have been interesting to know their reaction to a tour of an American factory turning out Sherman tanks, B29 bombers or whatever.
@SeattlePioneer: Personally, I would have given "those guys" a tour of the sprawling tobacco and cotton fields of Dixie topped off with visits to shacks the sharecroppers lived in. And let them join them in the fields for some stimulating sunup to sundown fun for at least 6 days a week...
@@dpeasehead-They weren't criminals, they were soldiers and were merely being kept from the battlefield, not punished for doing their jobs.
@@dawnrogers5829 How is working from sun up to sun down under the hot sun for six or seven days a week for next to nothing "punishment" for hardened soldiers who probably committed lots of massacres back in Europe? It was good enough for millions of black men, women, and children in down in "Dixie" USA at that time.
@@dpeasehead -The average German soldier didn't massacre anyone, that's the SS you're thinking of and those guys were actively hunted for actual punishment. The Geneva Convention is pretty clear on how you treat and care for POWs and even how much they're to be paid for work they perform......" millions of black men, women, and children in down in "Dixie" USA at that time" were not covered under Convention rules.
@@dawnrogers5829 You need to miss me with the "black people were subhuman and were not protected by any law" stuff. That's the very ideology that underpinned both American jim crow AND the nazi regime that man was fighting for before he ended up in a POW camp. But you are too blind to see it...Americans seem to never tire of creating justifications for their evils and racist practices and for their double standards when it comes to justice and mistreatment of humans whom they define as less then...
Read some history every now and then. It was not just Hitler and a couple of SS units that drove "the final solution." The "average German soldier" was deeply involved in massacres and atrocities of every kind and scale all across Europe from 1939 until the closing days in the ruins of Berlin.
Whatever that individual's personal responsibility may or may not have been, a victory or a draw for the regime which he served would have been a nightmare for a very large part of humanity. Apparently, you would have been on the safe side of that divide..
My point is that he was granted special treatment in a foreign country in a part of that country which was in the middle of an ongoing large scale human rights violation whether you choose to see it as such or not..Like I said, American moral blindness is among the very worse.
I wonder if a sort of credit score system was used to repatriate POWs? When my dad was stationed overseas during WW2, they had a credit system. Rank did not affect your standing on when you got a place on a transport bound for America. The more credits you had (the longer you were out of country) the sooner you got a place on a transport. My dad was lucky. He would have had to wait months to get transport but a friend and fellow officer offered him a spot on a small US Army transport boat (yes, the army had lots of small boats) that was used to move cargo around the Marianas Island chain that was headed back to San Francisco since the war was over. He had to stand watch during the crossing. The boat was small! It was great for getting around in shallow water I imagine but crossing the Pacific in that little tub was another matter. It was damaged in a storm while they were crossing and they had to put in at Hawaii for repairs.
These stories seem to be reruns with new titles. I've heard this one before several months ago.
I enjoy it when we get in Starbucks, lines or McDonald’s and Burger King lines and somebody always start this pay it forward. So I don’t know how many people do this but by the time I got up to pay for whoever’s food and drinks for behind me I popped out about $25 and I ask the cashier. How long is it been going on and she said at least 10 vehicle.
Ok, did this start in the POW camps of WW2?
So stupid
I wonder if this is the story where he ends up in the UK for 2 years.
Sir you will get to know tomorrow