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Very proud of my home state. Kansas born, Kansas raised. Lived in many places in Kansas including Concordia.

Overall the German pow's in America was a good experience.But there were problems. There were Nazi hardliners that refused to let go of Nazi ideology.And there were suspected murders of German pow's by the hardliner Nazis. Eventually the United States weeded them out and sent them to a more restrictive prison camp for the ones that refused to let go of their Nazi ideas.

Dude take the cpap machine off before you narrate next time

I am from the Flint Hills NE - Manhattan. I miss Kansas..

A commercial in the first minute I don’t think so 🙈

It's not that the farmers "liked" hiring prisoners, just that all the men of age were scarce because they fought the war, too.

Victoria, KS has the beautiful Cathedral of the Plains.

Lived in Kansas all my life. Good video, very informative.

Trying to find my great -grandparents. They lived in a sod house in Coyville. I think they made a fortune from the Wilson County oil strike at Neodosha. James Edward Jones. Minnie Walker Jones. And the notorious J.Edward Jones. Called the “Louisiana Oilman Jones”. He had an office on Park Avenue in NYC. His stock fraud led to the creation of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Wonderful documentary. Im not from Kansas but I lived here most my life.. 😅

Hello from Kansas 🇺🇲

I'm a transplant to Kansas, 15 yrs ago, consider myself a Kansan now, came from upper midwest rust belt....

amazing story, did we bring back japanese pow s ?

Do the thing on Sylvia KS the team that beat them was Haven

Back when Americans were decent and kind

Our Greatest Power is not our weapons but our diplomacy. The way to change hearts and minds is thru our humanity and generosity.

The sad part is the fact that the nazi pow's were treated better than a lot of black soldiers were guarding the camps in the south.i remember hearing about a black soldier that was shot by the local police in Crossville tn because he went into a white only restaurant. The German pow's could go into the local theater, and the black soldiers could not.

One of the most beautiful girls I have ever known was from Kansas. She was my first love. Wherever you are today L thank you for the memories.

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“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you." Most of these Americans had been taught scriptures like this since they had been in Sunday school. The Russians had not. They had been taught there is no God.

When I was a high school kid we had neighbors who immigrated to the US after WWII from Germany. The husband had been in the German army during the war. He was lucky guy as he was captured by the Russians and spent several years in a Russian prison camp. He was not lucky because he was captured by the Russians. I am sure his treatment was terrible. He was lucky because he managed to survive. I think more German soldiers died in Russia pow camps than those who managed to get back to Germany.

I lived in South Central Nebraska one hour from Concordia while in High school in the early seventies. Back then states set their own minimum age for consuming alcohol. You could drink 3.2 beer at the age of 18 in Kansas. My friends and I went to a bar that had live music on Saturdays at a place called DJ’s in Concordia. The bar was more interested in making money than enforcing the drinking age law so we started going there a couple of years before we turned 18. It was a great time and I have fond memories of going there. I did not turn 18 until October my freshman year at college. I must add that many of the old farmers in the area were grandchildren of German immigrants. Back then you could go into the one tavern in these small towns in Nebraska and Kansas, that were more like villages with only 200-300 residents and hear these old farmers speak German as they played cards. When back in the area a few years ago I asked a friend from one of these little towns settled by German immigrants if you could still hear German spoke in the tavern. He said all German speaking went away with the deaths of the older generation.

Wow what an amazing story.Wonderful thank-you.

Greetings from a Kansan stuck in Northern Maine for the past 25 years, married a Manie-ac

my relatives had German labor prisoners who volunteered to work on the family farm, my grandparents said they were good workers, they worked 8 hours, had Sundays off, ate big farm meals, (better than many Americans were able to get). and were treated very well, this was in late 1943 and thru 1945. My grandparents assumed our POW boys overseas were treat just as well, until after the war they found how poorly they were treated, and the American and British POW's who were hungry and lacking medical were way better off than other prisoners like Russian, Slav's, etc. and then they found out about the millions of Slav's, Jewish, Russians civilians and POWs that were killed in confinement and death camps, They said it upset them greatly. A great nation would have sent those prisoners back home if they could not furnish them with food and medicine, but we all know how Germany and Japan regarded human life, now.

The only thing it seems they were lacking was women, and some even had access to them. It doesn't sit well with me that some American girls were trysting with Axis POWs while their male relatives and boyfriends were overseas fighting for their lives.

As one was born 1942, I must say this is a great ducument of history. As airforceman in the 1960s, I could spent several visits in the USA and had among older serviceman some, which were POW in the USA. They all had expiriences as are described in this documention.

It was such a blessing to be freed of Nazism, taken out of the war as Hitler led his nation to mass death and even study and build a life for after the war.

Sometimes when we talk to people who oppose US, we have to remember things like the behaviour of US during WW2, as a Dane with family in CA and FL in US, it’s a treat so see uploads like this. Thanks a million!

It was the same in the U.K, With some German P.O.W going home after war, A lot of ex-German P.O.W's came back to live in the U.K, Went back to the farms they worked on, & some married local girls!

This video reminded me of a story I read in a newspaper years ago. I German PW became curious as he traveled from NY to a POW camp. He escaped from a camp because he wanted to see some of America. He returned to the POW camp on his own after a week. When the war ended and he was being sent back to Germany, he escaped again. Because he wanted to stay in America. If I remember right, he was caught after a couple of weeks and later was allowed to stay here.

After reading all the negatives I would like to remindH people that the Geneva Convention was followed not because we are such 'nice' people but because we had hopes that the letters to Germany showed how good they were treated hoping they would treat our soldiers better. Well, at least they didn't treat them worse knowing there German POW's were treated well. I'm an immigrate from Germany whose father was at Concordia and later Fort Riley. He only could come back because he was a displaced person from the East so the prisoners were returned to Germany after the war and many went to France still POW and sent places to work and rebuild. Even some opted to fight in Viet Nam for the French. There are so many stories out there and coming home to Germany wasn't always one of them. My dad studied democracy and passed a test and got a special paper that let him go home to Germany. Lots of stories out there.

My dad was a camp guard for German POW's. He said they were hard working very industrious. They liked working on the local farms and they were always making things. Some make all wood coo-coo clocks that they would sell to camp personnel or the locals they work for.

Try Angola, KS. Last time I was there to visit a Medicaid waiver client, the town only had eight residents.

Just to let people know just how big Kansas is, I live in Girard, KS which is in the SE corner of Kansas. It is a longer trip from Girard, KS to Garden City, Kansas than from Girard, KS to Des Moines, Iowa.

They got excellent treatment from the US , but we had no reason to hate them . They hadn’t bombed & burned our cities or murdered our children .

My home area of Colorado, Sugar City, had a POW CAMP and i heard msny stories about the farmers and field workers.

There were 512 German pow camps scattered in all of the 48 states. The notion that the government wanted some place isolated like Kansas is baloney They all had about the same freedom to come and go as an American soldier. They even ate the same food and got the same medical care as an American soldier.

I tell you what, at this time we had no idea what horrible hell of atrocities that the Germans were doing, if the locals found out it would be a whole different story here,

Such touching stories

Please remember people,, some one once said, we are prisoners of War, not criminals, R.H.

This causes me to be very proud to be part of the American culture. We are inherently kind. I've noticed that people who express racist views generally make exceptions for those persons of other races they personally know. This also goes for LGBTQ persons. We need to promote interaction and discourse. It'd be better if we stopped allowing political leaders to manipulate us.

You can take the German out of Germany but not Germany out of the German 🤷‍♂️ Live Life and Love Life ❣️ 🫂 ❣️ Wonderful & Beautiful day's ahead Y'all

My late father- in-law was an Italian submariner, a cadet, captured from his sunken submarine in 1940 by the Royal Navy. He was first in he the UK, then in Canada and then in the US; I think Tennessee. He larned very good English during his time in Allied ands. After the War he came to Canada, met and married a wonderful teacher whom he knew through church. They had five great daughters. He was a very kind and caring man; he clearly had been positively influenced by his experiences in the years 1940-45.

Nice to see somthing good about the USA

Now lets check out what some POWs of the Soviets have to say about their visit to Mother Russia lol. Got a feeling they might have had a bit different experience.

6:23 this is exactly why they were invading Russia, they were trying to get their living space.

Interned, not interred...

Ironic that most of the farmers were 2nd or 4rd generation German-American.