When I Arrived In America I Knew It Was Over

When I Arrived In America I Knew It Was Over
This is the part 9 of the memoirs of a German POW
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[@joshntn37111]

Please tell me there is a part 2 to this story. If so, can I please know what the title is? Thank you.

[@osvaldowesly9993]

The current generation needs to see and hear these videos.

[@davidsauls9542]

I learn from these diaries. My dad served at Camp Clinton and was tasked with getting to know the Germen generals and learn all he could by befriending them. He would not disclose anything until dementia took hold. Then we began to understand.

[@tomcreaniceman7426]

Amazing,hope pops is ok

[@kylehankins5988]

It’s funny how self righteous they all are when they could just as easily have ended up in some gulag in Russia.

[@robertbrodie5183]

funny to hear them passing through pa german country where thier hession prisioner forebearer were held and a friend of mines gggfather did not leave and joined the pa dutch

[@crystalbluepersuasion1027]

One of my ancestors was a Hessian solder. He was a teenager working a hay field in Bavaria when he was taken out of the field and forced into military service. When fighting in America he was taken prisoner, and stayed a prisoner for 4-5 years. Finally the hessian prisoners were going to be shipped back home. He’d been gone for 6 years at that point, and he’d decided he wanted to stay in America so he managed to escape….successfully, and settled in N, Carolina where he became a farmer.

[@robertbrodie5183]

if you have a family name Savage you may share this pa dutch pow history and "hessians" actually covered many german mercs raised from many different german citystates...........the stay in america theme because germany is destroyed ecos in 1700 diaries much like 1945 ones....or in my own famalies history 1920s ......

[@jmromero6381]

I'm amused at how critical the Krauts were. Better to be in the US than Siberia. They just didn't see it.

[@scottsmith7051]

Homesickness will do that.

[@patriciahisoire5753]

When you see the buildings in Europe and the beauty of them, incomparable to New York City skyscrapers. They saw it.

[@thresher4]

Loosing the war had it's reactionary repercussions. Being a pow or being severely crippled in Russia definately limited survival.

[@robertbrodie5183]

funny thing is i heard some of the same sort of comparisions by 1980s american soldiers in germany or civil war diaries when in opponents territories. 2 sides 1st "they dont have xyz like home" 2nd "xyz is so much better than home"

[@stevenparker8076]

How many stayed after the war?

[@BillColeExperience]

What was the Cincinatti joke?

[@walterquick8649]

The Lucky few, interesting A.I.

[@silverstar4289]

Sounds suspiciously like Mark Felton, doesn’t it.