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C-SPAN Cities Tour - Ogden: WWII POW Camp in Ogden

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Learn about the POW camp that housed thousands of soldiers in Ogden, Utah during World War 2. Documentarian Scott Porter has interviewed several surviving German POWs and is putting together a documentary about their experience. Hear from Mr. Porter about what life was like in the United States for Prisoners of War during that time.

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@MellaMalta
@MellaMalta 11 ай бұрын
Mein Opa war im Camp Ogden als Kriegsgefangener. Ihm hatte es dort gut gefallen. 1947 kam er wieder zurück nach Deutschland. Unterlagen in Englischer Sprache über den Aufenthalt im Camp fand ich in einer Schachtel auf dem Dachboden. Der Bericht stimmt, sie hatten es dort gut im Lager denn mein Opa erzählte mir darüber.
@kimmcdonald1096
@kimmcdonald1096 8 ай бұрын
My grandfather was a guard at this camp. He only ever had nice things to say about the prisoners.
@matthewcostello3530
@matthewcostello3530 Жыл бұрын
we had german and Italian in Rochester, NY and surrounding areas
@RonLubensky
@RonLubensky 9 жыл бұрын
My father was accommodated there as a POW. He is 90 now. I have forwarded a link to him.
@PacoOtis
@PacoOtis 2 жыл бұрын
Bravo! Thanks for sharing and reminding us that we are all human, regardless of our roots!
@graylienz8317
@graylienz8317 2 жыл бұрын
I never even knew there were pow camps in Utah until I was reading a random article online, and that lead me here. Very interesting topic. I'm honestly glad we treated them well. Kill em with kindness. It's better making friends than making more enemies.
@Jhparker1024
@Jhparker1024 Жыл бұрын
Pows were not required to work. They were paid if they worked. About 80 cents a day which they were paid in script. They could spend it at the camp canteen
@vernonsteinkamp1088
@vernonsteinkamp1088 7 жыл бұрын
I just inherited some belongings from my uncle who was stationed in Ogdon at the camp. I have several love letters from him to my aunt ( both deceased). During his service, he was also stationed in Byron CA at an internment camp for the Japanese. He was a fireman there. When he got out, he was a fireman for the city of Tracy CA.
@cissiepierce664
@cissiepierce664 Жыл бұрын
It was not just farms. I had a relative who owned a timber company and he would go to a local POW camp every morning to pick up prisoners and transport them to a timber cutting site in Alabama. Thankfully, I learned this information from my grandmother. One of the most interesting stories concerned identical twin POWs who were regularly a part of the cutting crew. I was a teenager then and sincerely regret not pursuing this information while my relative was still alive and could have provided first hand information!
@fayprivate7975
@fayprivate7975 Жыл бұрын
As I watch these videos about German POWs in the USA, It’s astonishing to realize what a good thing it turned out to be for all. It seems to me that, historically, POWs are not well treated, and indeed, are most often brutalized and killed. It’s weird how they were brought here and ended up doing the home front labor of our American men, who were now fighting in Europe, and capturing these Germans, only to send them to the States to do their work for them. It was like a rotation of manpower. Losing so many soldiers to captivity, Germany couldn’t help but lose the war! Then all these healthy POWs returned to Germany with a newer mindset and helped to rebuild Germany into a healing democratic power. This may be an idealistic viewpoint, but I believe there’s truth in it. I appreciate how we treated these captured soldiers.
@Engelhafen
@Engelhafen 3 жыл бұрын
Most states had several camps - I grew up with kids whose fathers were In these camps and moved here
@donb7113
@donb7113 4 жыл бұрын
My father worked at the Ogden naval depot during WW2. One day he was given 6 german POW’s to supervise as they unloaded a train car.
@timlamb9428
@timlamb9428 3 жыл бұрын
This touches my heart :)
@wirelessone2986
@wirelessone2986 4 жыл бұрын
The Germans that came to the United States were Very fortunate.Much better than being buried in Russia.
@Changnoi12
@Changnoi12 4 жыл бұрын
Rhine meadow camp Rheinwiesenlager was a complex of about twenty US death camps for about 3.4 million German prisoners of war in the Rhineland between spring and late summer 1945. According to official US data, only 5,000 people are said to have died in these camps, and independent reports (e.g. James Bacque) are estimated to kill up to a million people. Other research confirms a minimum casualty of 750,000. In addition, the US is accused of having actually worked against preventing this mass death
@418cjpaul
@418cjpaul 4 жыл бұрын
very well done!!
@denniswakabayashi9000
@denniswakabayashi9000 Жыл бұрын
Japanese Americans were incarcerated in Utah too. Topaz Mountain. I wonder which camp had it better?
@poetcomic1
@poetcomic1 11 ай бұрын
So many of the first great wave of prisoners were proud Wehrmacht soldiers of Rommel and many even disliked Hitler.
@barryguyer8174
@barryguyer8174 4 жыл бұрын
Great documentary Every one should watch and hear about this. The reason i say is because When people hear and think about nazi war soldiers. They automatically think evil. But the truth of the matter is That many of them Wasn't evil. They served their Country and thought it Was the right thing to do And some of them didn't Want to serve and didn't agree with the war But they really didn't have a choice If they didn't serve when call upon There was a pretty high chance them of being executed.
@MellaMalta
@MellaMalta 8 ай бұрын
Germany Had the draft. Rejecting the German army was punichable with the death penalty. Guess chances where higher to survice joining the army or beeing killed by law.
@harrywitt4322
@harrywitt4322 7 жыл бұрын
My father was a pow there as well. This was the 2nd camp he was sent to the first one was in Texas after Ogden he was shipped to Idaho where he and the group he was sent with went on a hunger strike to get transfered to another camp because this camp was full of the hard core fanatical nazis which they wanted no part of. The last camp he was in was at Fort Ord in California on the army base until the end of the war.
@scootin123
@scootin123 6 жыл бұрын
Harry Witt that is an interesting account .Thanks Harry
@MrRobison118
@MrRobison118 7 жыл бұрын
i just went in there today, i imagine what is like when the pows where here then i got me in to it
@garybanglebangle7949
@garybanglebangle7949 4 жыл бұрын
My father was a guard at this post in WW2. He was a First Sgt. At this post. I don't know what he did. He did get married to my mom at this post. My older sister was born at this post. He never talked about it. Dad in 1977. Glad to have this info. Thanks.
@dreamdancer8212
@dreamdancer8212 4 жыл бұрын
Just read that Italian pows were interned in Ogden too. And all these people in your video doesn't look German at all. They clearly look Italian and I am pretty sure they are.
@miker1721
@miker1721 4 жыл бұрын
Yes, Italians definitely were interred there as POWs!! A close personal family friend (now deceased) was there, from the Italian Navy. He loved his time in Ogden. His family later emigrated back to the US through NYC, and then to South Florida to run their own restaurants. I'm sure the German POWs appreciated having the Italians doing the cooking, too!!
@Coupal1
@Coupal1 4 жыл бұрын
The German prisoners of war were not all that different because both the Americans and the Germans were originally Europeans with the same religion and similar cultures. I understand why they were fighting each other, but it was nonetheless a tragedy that they were fighting each other in the first place. Both WWI and WWII devastated Europe and now we see the result, an example being the flood of migrants into Europe who have NOTHING in common with European culture.
@biketothetop
@biketothetop 4 жыл бұрын
You sound like a racist when you speak as if different cultures shouldn't coexist in Europe as they do in the USA. Hmmm... wasn't that the kind of thinking that facist Hitler embodied?
@rollingh8809
@rollingh8809 2 жыл бұрын
I been to Germany, I worked on Norwegian and Swedish ships with German crew members, I'm an American and the only difference I experienced was the languages difference, we were all Europeans even though I was born in America, we were a common race. My ancestors were basically Irish, Scottish and German. So I may have a distant relative in some of these camps.
@therocketmanwarzone3601
@therocketmanwarzone3601 6 жыл бұрын
Was not just Germans What about the Italians stationed there?
@olyvoyl9382
@olyvoyl9382 3 жыл бұрын
They eere not stationed here. They were imprisons.
@Nannerchan
@Nannerchan 4 жыл бұрын
They were happy because they were being treated humanely in Ogden instead of dying in the frozen fields of Stalingrad. We treated them a lot better than they treated our POWs.
@michellem5600
@michellem5600 3 жыл бұрын
Exactly! After returning from the horrors if Stalingrad, my 20 year old grandfather thought Utah was paradise. Thank you Utah for treating him with respect and restoring his faith in humanity. He was ultimately sent to Scotland where he married, had kids and grandkids and grew old.
@poetcomic1
@poetcomic1 3 жыл бұрын
They treated the Germans soldiers a lot better than the GERMANS did.
@guygrip2120
@guygrip2120 4 жыл бұрын
You didnt tell part of masscre of what happen to these poor pows in UTAH Shot down by one man
@TheSteveBoyd
@TheSteveBoyd 4 жыл бұрын
That was actually in Salina, which is about 150 miles to the south. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpLHo2hqpq2Arqc
@bangochupchup
@bangochupchup 3 жыл бұрын
Murdered by a New Yorker.
@markjamison9677
@markjamison9677 4 жыл бұрын
I hear some of the prisoners were handed over to the Russians and died in the gulags after the war .
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