#  @wwarchronicle War Chronicle War Chronicle posts on YouTube about war, camp, in the, this is the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [------] [#](/creator/youtube::UCRb8sbVa_yKeb1fbW5qGDuQ/interactions)  - [--] Week [-------] +44% - [--] Month [-------] -18% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/youtube::UCRb8sbVa_yKeb1fbW5qGDuQ/posts_active)  ### Followers: [-----] [#](/creator/youtube::UCRb8sbVa_yKeb1fbW5qGDuQ/followers)  - [--] Week [-----] +7.50% - [--] Month [-----] +66% ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/youtube::UCRb8sbVa_yKeb1fbW5qGDuQ/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) [finance](/list/finance) [stocks](/list/stocks) **Social topic influence** [war](/topic/war), [camp](/topic/camp), [in the](/topic/in-the), [this is](/topic/this-is), [food](/topic/food), [tunisia](/topic/tunisia) #57, [to the](/topic/to-the), [soldiers](/topic/soldiers), [brutal](/topic/brutal), [paid](/topic/paid) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "German POWs in Florida Were Taken to the Beach - They Were Shocked Americans Just Let Them Swim Nazi POWs in Florida Were Taken to the Beach - They Were Shocked Americans Just Let Them Swim In June [----] German prisoner Klaus Weber stood in the back of an American Army truck trying to understand what was happening. Captured in Tunisia shipped across the Atlantic expecting brutal prison conditionsinstead he was told he was going swimming. Swimming. In the middle of a war. As a prisoner. This is the forgotten story of how America treated [-----] German POWs held in Florida during World War II." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=MkXeF8OFbzE) 2026-01-07T23:00Z [----] followers, 302.8K engagements "Nazi POWs in Louisiana Couldn't Believe What Americans Considered 'Prison In June [----] [-----] German POWs arrived at prison camps across Louisiana expecting torture starvation and death. What they found on their dinner trays that first night shocked them more than anything they'd experienced in two years of brutal desert warfare. Karl Weber stepped off a transport truck at Camp Ruston weighing [---] pounds having not eaten a full meal in [--] days. He'd been told by SS officers that American prison camps would be death campsno mercy no Geneva Convention just slow death through neglect and cruelty." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Dsd1R3Yc-GA) 2025-12-11T23:30Z [----] followers, 93K engagements "German POWs in Pennsylvania Were Allowed to Walk Into Town Alone On June 12th [----] a German POW named Martin Schneider arrived at Camp Reynolds in Pennsylvania weighing [---] pounds after months of starvation rations. What happened next changed his life forever. The treatment he received as a prisoner of war was so generous that when he was finally released in [----] he weighed [---] pounds. He said he could no longer see his eyes when he smiled. But the abundance of food was just the beginning. German POWs in Pennsylvania were given heated barracks with real mattresses paid wages allowed to attend" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XH5TKjup3Cs) 2026-01-20T23:00Z [----] followers, 64.3K engagements "Italian POWs in Washington Picked Apples and Never Wanted to Go Home In September [----] thousands of Italian prisoners of war arrived at camps across Washington State expecting the worst. What they found instead changed their lives forever. Private Giuseppe Benedetti had spent two years starving in the North African desert fighting a war he never believed in. When he surrendered to American forces in Tunisia he thought his life was over. Instead he was shipped to Fort Lewis Washington where he discovered something he never expected: abundance. The Italian POWs were put to work picking apples" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=RdlMUKz1qZA) 2026-01-26T23:00Z [----] followers, 18.1K engagements "German POWs in Arkansas Said Prison in America Felt Illegal In June [----] Edwin Pelz stepped off a train in Arkansas expecting the worst. As a German POW captured in North Africa he'd been warned about American brutalityforced labor starvation beatings. What he found instead changed everything he thought he knew about his enemies. Real coffee for breakfast. Hot showers. University courses. Farmers who shared their lunch. Guards who treated him like a human being. For two and a half years Pelz worked in Arkansas cotton fields and timber operations earning [--] cents a day and eating food better" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=T_LMmfW6hPQ) 2026-01-22T23:00Z [----] followers, 23.3K engagements "German POWs in Texas Were Treated So Well Americans Called It 'The Fritz Ritz In May [----] German soldier Hans Weber stepped off a train in Texas expecting torture and starvation. What happened instead would shock him for the rest of his life. Camp Hearne held over [----] German POWs who ate better than American civilians attended university courses from Baylor performed operas in custom-built theaters and gained so much weight that locals sarcastically called it "The Fritz Ritz." While German families back home survived on [----] calories a day these prisoners ate [----] calories dailythe same" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Zi-yf4AIyz4) 2026-01-27T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "How One Nazi POW Escaped Camp Grant and Lived Free in America At 3:47 PM on September 21st [----] German Sergeant Reinhold Pabel walked away from a POW work detail with just $10.20 in his pocket. What happened next shocked the FBI and changed everything we thought we knew about World War II prisoners. Pabel was a combat veteran of the brutal Russian front and Italian campaign. Captured wounded and sent to Camp Grant Illinois he experienced something he never expected: American generosity. The food was incredible. The treatment was humane. He saw opportunity everywhere. But when the war ended" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=AvreH9DX7Do) 2025-12-09T21:30Z [----] followers, 111.7K engagements "German POWs Held in Minnesota Described It as HEAVEN In June [----] German tank gunner Hans Mller was captured after D-Day and shipped to America as a prisoner of war. Starving terrified and expecting the worst he arrived at a POW camp in Minnesota. What happened next shocked himand changed his life forever. Instead of punishment Mller found three hot meals a day. Instead of hard labor camps he got paid work on local farms. Instead of cruelty he received treatment that exceeded even what he'd experienced in his own military. American POW camps fed German prisoners roast beef and apple pie while" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IEXK5W1sHrw) 2026-01-03T23:00Z [----] followers, 335.9K engagements "Nazi POWs in Arizona Were Taken to the Grand Canyon - They Couldn't Believe it Was Real In December [----] [--] German POWs escaped from Camp Papago Park near Phoenix Arizona through a 178-foot tunnel they'd spent four months digging. But their elaborate escape plan had one fatal flaw - they thought Arizona's rivers would have water. Werner Kraus and his fellow prisoners believed everything at the camp was American propaganda. The abundant food Fake. The Grand Canyon photographs in the library Hollywood creations. Their commanding officer U-boat captain Jrgen Wattenberg had convinced them it was" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=L2HtJb1BnHE) 2025-12-14T01:15Z [----] followers, 163.4K engagements "Italian POWs in California Thought They Were Being Punished When Given This Job September [----]. Italian prisoner Giuseppe Toselli expected rock quarries and hard labor when he arrived in California. Instead American guards handed him an assignment that made him furious: vineyard work. He thought it was mockery. Degrading "peasant work" designed to humiliate trained craftsmen. He had no idea that within [--] months he'd own part of that vineyard. That his fellow prisonerssent to restaurant kitchens and farmswould become some of California's most successful businessmen. That the "punishment" they" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=TnOnx-yPRHY) 2025-12-16T00:15Z [----] followers, 99.5K engagements "German POWs in Oregon Thought Theyd Been Sent to Heaven On September 12th [----] Sergeant Josef Weber stepped off a train in Oregon expecting brutality. He was a German prisoner of war captured in Tunisia shipped across the Atlantic on a Liberty Ship. For six weeks he'd been certain the Allies would execute him. Instead he got roast beef. Three meals a day. Clean mattresses. Guards who didn't shout. And apple pie from a farmer who spoke German and offered him a job after the war. Weber had grown up under Nazi propaganda that told him America was weak decadent destroyed by its own freedoms. But" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=bGFTGvdB17I) 2026-01-21T23:00Z [----] followers, 125.3K engagements ""Nazis Laughed at His 'Cardboard' Plane Until It Delivered [--] Tons of Bombs They Never Saw Coming" Nazis Laughed at His 'Cardboard' Plane Until It Delivered [--] Tons of Bombs They Never Saw Coming On February 18th [----] Squadron Leader Robert Bateson flew a wooden airplane into one of the most dangerous missions of WWII. The Germans had been mocking the de Havilland Mosquito for yearscalling it a toy a furniture factory experiment a death trap made of plywood and glue. Hermann Gring head of the Luftwaffe was furious that Britain was "wasting" resources building bombers out of wood when they had" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0Q-fUoDy2iw) 2025-12-03T21:30Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Female Soviet POWs Liberated From German Camps - What Happened Next Was Worse April 17th [----]. Ravensbrck concentration camp Germany.Senior Sergeant Yekaterina Mikhailova watched Red Army tanks smash through the gates. She had survived [--] years and [--] months of Nazi captivity. She had endured starvation that dropped her weight from 62kg to 38kg. She had watched [---] women from her barracks die. When Soviet soldiers cut through the barbed wire she wept with joy. She embraced the first Red Army lieutenant she saw."We're saved" she told her fellow prisoners. "We're finally saved."She was" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=11NnDltYzgk) 2025-11-16T18:00Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "German POWs in Oklahoma Couldn't Believe American Hygiene Standards When Feldwebel Hans Weber stepped off a train at Fort Reno Oklahoma in May [----] he expected brutality. Nazi propaganda had told him Americans were weak starving and collapsing. What he found instead shattered everything he believed about the world. Hot showers. Clean barracks. Fried chicken and apple pie. Indoor plumbing with porcelain toilets. Ice cream on Saturdays. German prisoners of war in Oklahoma were eating better than they had in the Wehrmacht - and better than civilians back in Germany. This is the true story of how" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1jjIExLo-Ts) 2026-01-18T23:00Z [----] followers, 12.1K engagements "German POWs in Kansas Couldn't Believe American Food Portions At 2:47 PM on June 12th [----] Unteroffizier Werner Schafer stood in a processing line at Camp Concordia Kansas staring at a metal tray that made no sense. The American sergeant had just handed him more food than he'd seen in two years of war. A massive slab of beef. Mountains of mashed potatoes. Fresh bread with real butter. Coffee that actually smelled like coffee. And apple pie. Schafer weighed [---] pounds. He asked if the tray was meant for multiple men. The sergeant laughed and said it was just lunch. One meal. What Schafer" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=27BZKlbxZTw) 2026-01-17T23:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "What Nazi POWs Found on Their Dinner Trays in Texas Shocked Them More Than War On May 27th [----] German officer Werner Kraus stood in a chow line at Camp Hearne Texas staring at something he hadn't seen in over a year: real eggs sliced ham fresh tomatoes butter and cold milk. For a soldier who'd spent months starving in North Africa eating British tinned beef and German hardtack the abundance was incomprehensible. This is the untold story of over [-----] German POWs sent to Texas during World War IIand how what they found at dinner shocked them more than combat ever did. The "Fritz Ritz" as" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2dWJnC9sYF4) 2025-12-07T21:00Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "German POWs in Alabama Were Paid MORE Than Local Workers - Americans Couldn't Believe It In [----] farmer Robert Hayes watched enemy soldiers arrive at his Alabama farm to pick his cotton. The U.S. government charged him [--] cents per hour for their labor. His regular crew He paid them [--] cents per day. German prisoners of war earned [--] cents daily - the same as American soldiers. Meanwhile local farmworkers especially Black laborers in the South made a fraction of that amount doing identical work. The Geneva Convention required equal treatment for POWs but nobody had thought about what that" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2nWuwP_NnjY) 2026-01-14T23:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Nazi POWs in New York Were Taken to See the Statue of Liberty - They Couldn't Believe it Was Real June 12th [----]. Oberfeldwebel Klaus Hartmann stood on the deck of a Liberty Ship entering New York Harbor. For three years Nazi propaganda had told him that American cities were in ruinsbombed by the Luftwaffe economies collapsed populations starving. Then he saw the Statue of Liberty standing untouched. The Manhattan skyline intact. No bomb damage. No destruction. Everything he'd been told was a lie. What happened next would change his understanding of everything he'd fought for. This is the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5Np6neEHkF0) 2025-12-20T00:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Nazi POWs Were Shocked The Untold Truth of Americas WWII Camp Hearne When German POW Leutnant Hans Kramer stepped off a train in Texas on July 18th [----] he expected punishment. Instead he found steak dinners tennis courts and living conditions better than most American civilians. This is the shocking true story of Camp Hearnewhere [----] Nazi prisoners lived in comfort while American families dealt with strict rationing. This story isn't just about POWs eating wellit's about the cost of maintaining moral authority during war the resentment that builds when principles conflict with emotion and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6oDsicZ1qXM) 2025-12-22T23:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "German POWs in Ohio Refused to Return to Germany After the War German POW Refused to Go Home After WWII - Here's Why At 2:47 PM on May 8th [----] Unteroffizier Lukas Reinhardt stood behind barbed wire at Camp Perry Ohio watching Americans celebrate Victory in Europe Day. The war was over. Germany had surrendered. Within weeks he'd be shipped back across the Atlantic. But Reinhardt told his bunkmate that night he'd rather stay in Ohio than return to Germany. The sergeant processing repatriation paperwork thought he was joking. He wasn't. What happened next reveals one of the most fascinating" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7-tedIBEmVw) 2026-01-23T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Italian POWs in Florida Refused to Leave After the War Ended - Here's Why In [----] thousands of Italian prisoners of war were sent to camps across Florida. They were expected to hate their captivity and count the days until they could return home. But something unexpected happened. When the war ended in [----] and repatriation ships arrived many of these prisoners cried. They begged the Americans to let them stay. Some tried to hide. Guards reported prisoners asking "Can we just stay" This is the true story of Sergeant Antonio Bellini and over [----] Italian POWs who were sent to Florida as" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7hJQOij5Nbg) 2025-12-26T05:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "German POWs in Texas Couldn't Believe They Were Eating Better Than Americans In this video we explore how German POWs in Texas during WW2 were living better than most Americans back home. While folks stateside were dealing with strict rationing these captured soldiers were eating 3000+ calories a day with milk butter and meat on the menu. Locals were so pissed they called the camps "The Fritz Ritz." The craziest part Many of these guys actually gained weight as prisoners and some even tried to come back to America after the war ended. We're talking about prisoners eating better than their own" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7vuR-EYvNpI) 2025-11-23T00:15Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "How One American Destroyer Charged [--] Battleships And Saved [---] Ships in [--] Hours October 25th [----]. Commander Ernest Evans is sailing off the Philippines when four Japanese battleships appear on the horizon. The lead ship is Yamato - the biggest baddest warship ever built. Its shells weigh as much as a pickup truck. Its armor is [--] inches thick. Evans is commanding USS Johnston a destroyer. His ship weighs [----] tons. Yamato weighs [-----] tons. It's like a Honda Civic staring down a freight train. Behind Yamato are three more battleships six heavy cruisers and eleven destroyers. They're heading" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=AiWS_1Z-kME) 2025-11-20T05:00Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "German POWs in Arizona Refused to Believe America Was This Beautiful December 23rd [----]. Gnter Grwe stood in a prison camp canteen staring at ice cream and Coca-Colatwo things he hadn't seen in three years. His hands were shaking. Not from fear. From the sudden realization that everything the Reich had told him about America was a lie. Camp Papago Park near Phoenix Arizona housed [----] German prisoners mostly U-boat sailors. What happened there defied everything they'd been taught about the enemy. The food was better than what German civilians ate. The treatment followed rules instead of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=AqF3Q_lbRfs) 2026-01-11T23:00Z [----] followers, 16.5K engagements "The German POW Who Escaped to Chicago and Lived as an American for [--] Years Before Anyone Knew In September [----] German POW Georg Grtner walked away from Camp Deming New Mexico and vanished into America for [--] years. This video covers his capture in North Africa life as a prisoner in the New Mexico desert his carefully planned escape through 120-degree heat and his transformation into Dennis F. Whilesan American ski instructor and golf pro. We explore how he forged documents in Los Angeles moved between [--] cities to avoid detection built friendships and relationships while hiding his true" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=B5wcP4gRcDQ) 2025-12-25T22:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The Christmas Dinner That Made German POWs Cry 5:53 PM - Colonel James Weston addresses [---] German POWs announces they'll receive the same Christmas meal as American soldiers 6:02 PM - Formation breaks prisoners begin filing into mess hall in groups of [--] 6:34 PM - Klaus Hartmann (26 captured at Normandy June [--] 1944) enters and receives full turkey dinner with all accompaniments KEY MOMENT (6:34-6:47 PM) Prisoners experience severe emotional breakdown while eating. Many cry some vomit from guilt. Ernst Weber (41 Hamburg lawyer father of three) stares at his plate weepinghis daughter Greta (8" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BDT6Jtz_arw) 2025-12-27T23:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "How American Bombers Destroyed [----] Luftwaffe Planes in One Week - Hitler Fired His Air Chief In February [----] American bombers and fighters launched "Big Week" - a six-day air offensive that destroyed the Luftwaffe. Over [----] American planes escorted by P-51 Mustangs struck aircraft factories across Germany. The Luftwaffe lost [---] fighters and [---] irreplaceable pilots in six days. Germany could rebuild planes but couldn't replace experienced pilots. By D-Day the Allies controlled the skies. This week changed the war forever. 📢 What war story should we cover next Let us know in the comments." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=C6WtaaL5SSY) 2025-11-23T14:30Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "German POWs in Alabama Were Invited to American Family Dinners At 6:47 AM on November 3rd [----] Sergeant Friedrich Hartmann arrived at Camp Aliceville Alabama as a German prisoner of war. Captured at Kasserine Pass after his Panzer IV was destroyed he expected harsh treatment starvation rations and isolation. What he got instead was an invitation that would change his life forever. This is the true story of a German tank commander who destroyed American tanks in North Africa only to find himself working on an Alabama farm owned by Thomas Bradford - a man whose son was fighting against Germany" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=D7irL8Q9CdM) 2026-01-24T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "German POWs in California Were Taken to the Ocean - What Happened Next Shocked Them July 12th [----]. Unteroffizier Klaus Becker stood in a U.S. Army truck heading west from Camp Cooke California certain the Americans were taking him somewhere to be executed. He could smell salt air. He had never seen the Pacific Ocean. The guards hadn't explained where they were going. What Becker didn't know was that within two hours everything he believed about his captors would change forever. This is the true story of how German POWs in California were treated during World War IIand why thousands of them" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FauloFbuzO4) 2026-01-16T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Germans Laughed At The American Cargo Ship Carrier - It Became The Deadliest U-Boat Hunter March 17th [----]. Mid-Atlantic. A German U-boat commander laughs through his periscope at the sight: a stubby cargo ship with a wooden flight deck pretending to be an aircraft carrier. "Americans are so desperate" he tells his crew. What he didn't know was that these converted merchant shipsthe cheapest most expendable vessels in the US Navywould end U-boat supremacy in the Atlantic within [--] months. This is the story of the CVE escort carriers: hastily-built "baby flattops" constructed in [--] days from" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=G1NlKHTDw3Q) 2025-11-15T18:30Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "German POWs in Texas Thought the Desert Would Kill Them - Got AC Cabins and Steak Dinners In June [----] Corporal Rudolf Thill stepped off a train in Hearne Texas expecting death in the desert. What he found instead would haunt him for the rest of his life. Camp Hearne wasn't a prison camp. It was something else entirely. Hot showers. Real meat. White bread. Ice cream once a week. German prisoners from Rommel's Afrika Korps ate better than American civilians rationing food at home. They built elaborate fountains with running water. Miniature castles with moats. They attended university classes." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=GLvk2oy1MpE) 2026-01-10T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Italian POWs in Florida Had It So Good They Begged to Stay After War At 2:47 PM on September 23rd [----] Private Angelo Martinelli stood in the processing line at Camp Blanding Florida weighing just [---] pounds after months of starvation in North Africa. He expected a prison camphard labor barbed wire maybe slow death from hunger. Instead he walked into a mess hall and found roasted chicken mashed potatoes fresh bread and apple pie. Just a regular Thursday dinner. What happened next changed his life forever. This is the untold story of [-----] Italian prisoners of war who were sent to camps across" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=H1bxK7LY9JQ) 2026-01-13T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Japanese Admiral Yamamoto Warned About Attacking Pearl Harbor Then America Built [--] Essex Carriers Before Pearl Harbor Admiral Isoroku YamamotoJapans most brilliant and cautious strategisttried to stop what he knew would be a fatal mistake. He warned his superiors that attacking the United States would not lead to victory but to a war Japan could never win. He understood Americas hidden strengthits vast factories its unstoppable workforce its unmatched ability to rebuild faster than anyone on Earth. When Japan struck on December 7th [----] that warning became a chilling prophecy. In the months" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IJ4GszUvkg0) 2025-11-07T01:30Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Nazi POWs in Texas Were Fed Steak and Ice Cream - They Thought it Was a Trick June 8th [----]. A German POW stands in a Texas mess hall staring at more food than he's seen in four years of war. Roast beef. Real coffee. Butter. And ice cream. His first thought "They're trying to poison us." Heinrich Kramer had survived four years in the Wehrmacht eating starvation rations. He'd watched his daily bread shrink from [---] grams to [---] grams. He'd gone days without hot food in Tunisia before his Panzer unit ran out of fuel and he was captured. Now he's at Camp Hearne Texasa place the locals would call" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IiV8O6eBNkg) 2025-12-18T23:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "German POWs in California Were Taken to See the Redwoods - The Massive Trees Left Them Stunned At 2:11 in the afternoon on June 18th [----] Oberfeldwebel Klaus Richter stood in the bed of a Dodge truck rolling north through Humboldt County California watching trees appear through the coastal fog that made no sense to him. Twenty-nine years old captured in Tunisia two years earlier three years in the Afrika Korps before that. He had seen the deserts of North Africa the mountains of Sicily the farmland of central California where he had spent the past eighteen months picking oranges and walnuts." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=KylZ5eV6-WI) 2026-01-08T23:00Z [----] followers, 11.9K engagements ""How One American Stopped [----] Japanese for [--] Hours Until He Ran Out of Bullets" October 24-25 [----]. Guadalcanal. Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone and [--] Marines stood between [----] Japanese soldiers and Henderson Field the most critical airstrip in the Pacific. For six straight hours through the night Basilone manned two machine guns as wave after wave of Japanese infantry attacked his position. When his guns overheated he changed the barrels with his bare hands the metal so hot it burned his skin off. When he ran out of ammunition he strapped [--] pounds of belts across his body and fought" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=MdAzVzkdFHA) 2025-12-01T23:15Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Japanese POWs Arrived In America - What They Found Shocked Them More Than The War On December 8th [----] a young Japanese submarine officer washed ashore in Hawaii expecting to be tortured and executed. Instead American soldiers gave him a blanket. What happened next would shock him more than anything he experienced in combat. Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki became Prisoner of War #1 after his midget submarine failed during the Pearl Harbor attack. He had been trained his entire life that surrender meant disgrace worse than death. His officers told him Americans would brutalize any Japanese soldier they" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Mxs9KWa3gy4) 2025-11-26T22:00Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "German POWs in Oklahoma Refused to Leave America After the War Ended When German POW Heinrich Goedecke stood at the fence of Fort Reno camp on May 8th [----] watching American guards celebrate Germany's surrender he knew he was going home. Back to a country reduced to rubble. Back to a family eating potato peels and burning furniture to stay warm. Back to a Soviet-occupied zone where men were being shipped to labor camps in Siberia. For the past [--] months Heinrich had worked on Oklahoma farms. Three meals a day. Clean bed. [--] cents a day in wages. The farmer's wife served him fried chicken at" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QNSq6osWpAs) 2025-12-24T22:00Z [----] followers, 25.8K engagements "Nazi POWs in Colorado Were Taken to Aspen Mountain - They Couldn't Believe This Was Prison At 2:47 PM on June 23rd [----] German Unteroffizier Klaus Becker stepped off a truck outside Leadville Colorado and stared at the Rocky Mountains thinking he was being set up for a propaganda photograph. He'd been a prisoner of war for two months captured in Tunisia expecting slave labor or worse. Instead the Americans handed him a work assignment cutting timber at [-----] feet with a view that stretched sixty miles. The breakfast that next morning broke his brain: scrambled eggs bacon toast with real" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QwPoym4hGmk) 2025-12-16T23:15Z [----] followers, 52.6K engagements "German Generals Laughed At US Logistics - Then The Red Ball Express Arrived August 23rd [----]. German generals laughed at American logistics. "They are playing at war with delivery boys" von Rundstedt said dismissing the truck convoys as "circus tricks." The Americans were using trucksnot railways not horse-drawn wagons like professional armiesjust thousands of commercial vehicles driven by what German intelligence called "largely Negro motor transport units." Within three months those "delivery boys" were moving more supplies in one day than the entire German logistics system could move in a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=SC0msKS8_ns) 2025-11-17T00:00Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Italian POWs in Florida Refused to Leave After the War Ended - What They Found Changed Everything This story proves that sometimes losing a war means winning a life. Sometimes being captured means being freed. Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you turns out to be the best thing. At 2:47 PM on September 17th [----] Italian POW Antonio Caruso stood in a processing line at Camp Blanding Florida watching American soldiers hand out oranges like newspapers. Three per man. Take as many as you want. More in the mess hall. Caruso had surrendered in Sicily after three years fighting in North" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ts9czPpjKvE) 2025-12-17T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Italian POWs Described American POW Camps as Paradise on Earth From Enemy Prisoner to American Citizen: The Incredible True Story of Giuseppe Mariani On September 8th [----] Italian POW Giuseppe Mariani stood in a Seattle barracks stunned by a plate piled with roast beef and mashed potatoes. Just months earlier he'd been surviving on grass in a British prison camp in North Africa weighing barely [---] pounds. This is the extraordinary true story of how America's humane treatment of Italian prisoners during World War II transformed enemies into citizens and changed lives forever. What You'll" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VkwxzNXEXf8) 2026-01-02T00:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "German POWs Arrived in America - What They Found Shocked Them More Than The War May 12th [----]. A Liberty ship carrying [---] German prisoners to America. "The Americans can't even feed their own people" one prisoner said repeating Nazi propaganda. "We'll be lucky to get bread and water." Three weeks later that same prisoner wrote home describing meals so abundant his family thought he'd gone insane. German censors destroyed the letter assuming it was American propaganda. What the German POWs found in America shattered everything they'd been told about American weakness and poverty. They" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=W-rhMv6MYX4) 2025-11-16T12:30Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "How American General Patton Moved [------] Troops in [--] Hours - Germans Couldn't Believe It In December [----] German forces launched a massive surprise attack through the Ardennes Forest surrounding American troops in Bastogne. General George Patton made an impossible promise: move his entire Third Army of [------] troops [---] miles through winter pivot [--] degrees and attack in [--] hours. Military experts said it couldn't be done. Patton had secretly prepared contingency plans weeks earlier. On December 22nd exactly when he promised his attack began. The 4th Armored Division fought through snow and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=W2ixDiTPMUE) 2025-11-23T17:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "German POWs in Texas Couldn't Believe They Could Go to the Movies In June [----] Unteroffizier Klaus Hartmann arrived at Camp Hearne Texas expecting harsh prison conditions. What he found instead shocked him: swimming pools movie theaters ice cream three times a week and treatment better than he'd received as a soldier in the German army. This is the incredible true story of German prisoners of war in Texas during World War II who attended Hollywood films alongside American civilians ate better food than people back home in Germany played organized soccer and some even fell in love with local" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WS8eKhUhKoE) 2025-12-15T00:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Nazi POWs Could Eat at American Diners But Black Soldiers Couldn't - The Irony Broke Them August 3rd [----]. Sergeant Lloyd Brown stood outside a lunch counter in Kansas watching five German prisoners of war sit down and order food. Brown was wearing a U.S. Army uniform. His job was to guard these enemy soldiers. But when he tried to enter the same diner he was refused service. The reason He was Black. This wasn't an isolated incident. Across America during World War II approximately [------] German POWs were held in camps mostly in the South. Due to the Geneva Convention they were treated" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WbcIgokxm1o) 2025-12-10T23:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Italian POWs Begged to Stay in America After the War Ended On the morning of September 12th [----] Private Bruno Piva stood in the cargo hold of a Liberty ship watching America emerge from the fog. He was a prisoner of war. A baker from Genoa who had never fired his rifle at anyone. The Americans were taking him to a place called Arkansas. What happened next changed everything. [-----] Italian POWs were brought to camps across [--] American states. They expected hatred. They got fresh milk mattresses with springs and [----] calories a day. They got paid. They played bocce. They watched opera" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Wpy46fkG6yE) 2026-01-04T23:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The Plane That Changed Naval Warfare Forever-Douglas SBD Dauntless When the Pacific was burning and defeat felt certain one aircraft changed everything. The Douglas SBD Dauntless wasnt the most modern plane in the sky but it didnt need to be. It was reliable tough and flown by men who refused to lose. With dive angles so steep they defied reason Dauntless pilots dove through tracer fire and flak clouds to strike the heart of the Japanese fleet. At Midway they sank four carriers in a single dayturning what shouldve been a crushing defeat into the most important American victory of the war." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XiShzvXYMzo) 2025-11-08T23:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Italian POWs in New York Couldn't Believe They Were Being Paid to Work In May [----] Private Marco Benedetti was captured in Tunisia expecting the worststarvation abuse maybe execution. Instead he was shipped to America and found himself eating roast beef sandwiches earning [--] cents a day and living better than he ever had as a free man in Italy. This is the forgotten story of [-----] Italian prisoners of war who were sent to camps across the United States during World War II. What they found there shocked them: three meals a day with real meat clean barracks with electricity medical care and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=YXVofZpstW8) 2025-12-12T23:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "When Germans Stole An American B-17 And Realized They'd Already Lost September 12th [----]. Rechlin Germany. When the Luftwaffe captured a damaged American B-17 bomber German engineers thought they'd found the key to defeating it. They disassembled it tested it studied every component. What they discovered terrified them. The "wasteful" over-engineering wasn't a flawit was a production philosophy Germany couldn't match. Every part was designed for mass production. Every system had redundant backups. The Americans weren't building the perfect bomberthey were building good bombers in massive" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=YY_CHLGjCoo) 2025-11-15T00:00Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "German POWs Thought They Were Staying at the Hilton Hotel June [----]. Unteroffizier Werner Mller was captured by American forces near Anzio Italy. Everything he'd been told said he was heading to torture starvation and death. His own officers had warned him: surrender to the Americans and you won't survive. Then the plane landed in America. What Mller discovered in that Nebraska prison camp would shatter everything the Third Reich had taught him. The food was better than what German soldiers ate. The beds had actual pillows. American families watched soccer matches through the fence. And a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z1iyAXUilYc) 2026-01-15T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "German POWs in Iowa Couldn't Believe American Farmers Treated Them Like This August [----]. Franz Schneider went from commanding troops at Normandy to holding a pitchfork in rural Iowa. His new boss A farmer whose son was overseas shooting at Germans just like him. What happened next defied everything both men expected. This is the untold story of Camp Algonawhere [-----] German POWs were sent to America's heartland to save the harvest. Where enemies shared lunch in Iowa barns. Where a farmer's wife sent care packages to Munich while her son fought through France. Where hatred slowly gave way to" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZkZfYE4XKII) 2025-12-30T00:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Nazi POWs in Texas Were Shown American Grocery Stores - What They Saw Left Them Speechless When Heinrich Vogel stepped into a small Texas grocery store in [----] he couldn't believe his eyes. After years of Nazi propaganda claiming America was starving and collapsing this German officer found shelves overflowing with foodmore than he'd seen in any German store since before the war. This is the untold story of German POWs held in Texas during WWII who lived better as prisoners than they did as soldiers. They ate [----] calories a day. They gained weight. They had hot showers clean barracks and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZleMgTrpjfE) 2025-12-21T23:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "What Made America Unstoppable in WW2 December 8th [----]. Henry Kaiser stood in his California shipyard holding a contract every expert said was impossible. Build [--] cargo ships in [--] days each. Traditional shipyards needed [---] days per ship. His competitors laughed. The Navy rejected his proposal three times. Kaiser had never built a ship in his life. But what the Axis powers didn't know was that they had just declared war on a country whose industrial capacity operated by mathematics they couldn't comprehend. This is the story of how one man with unconventional methods proved that American" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=e2vc4C0PR-0) 2025-12-06T03:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "How One American Sergeant's 'Stupid' Bazooka Shot Destroyed Nazi Germany's Heaviest Tank The battlefield was quiet for a moment wrapped in fog and fear. Then came the sound deep mechanical unearthly. Out of the mist rolled one of Nazi Germanys heaviest tanks a monstrous slab of steel that made the ground shake beneath its tracks. Its armor was impenetrable its gun capable of tearing through anything the Americans had. Every soldier in the area knew that if this thing made it through dozens maybe hundreds of lives would be lost. But one man didnt run. One American sergeant armed with nothing" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=eauAYU_UKUc) 2025-11-11T22:00Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "American Pilot Rammed A Japanese Bomber And Survived - Japan Called It Suicide It Was Mathematics April 29th [----]. Burma. Second Lieutenant Owen Baggett hung helpless in his parachute harness watching a Japanese Ki-43 Oscar fighter circle closer. His B-24 Liberator lay scattered across the jungle below. Nine crew members descended in parachutes around him. Then the Japanese pilot did something that violated every rule of warfarehe began systematically shooting the parachuting airmen. When the Oscar closed to thirty feet Baggett could see the pilot's face through the canopy. Gun ports aligned" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=jCvQcr_a3Bo) 2025-11-16T00:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "How German POWs Got Drunk on New Year's Eve December 31st [----]. Camp Alva Oklahoma. While their country burned thousands of miles away [--] German prisoners of war were about to pull off something extraordinary: getting completely drunk right under the noses of their American guards. This is the true story of Unteroffizier Klaus Becker Gefreiter Hans Muller and a makeshift distillery hidden beneath the floorboards of Barracks [--]. For [--] weeks they turned potato peelings stolen sugar and scavenged copper pipe into 140-proof alcohol. They engineered a precision still that would've impressed" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=jZ60gT1GmzY) 2025-12-28T23:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "How One German Ace Destroyed [--] Allied Planes in [--] Hours - Britain Refused to Believe It On September 1st [----] 22-year-old Hans-Joachim Marseille the Luftwaffes Star of Africa pulled off one of the wildest days any fighter pilot ever recorded. Known as a ridiculously skilled but chaotic playboy who partied too much he still walked into the skies over North Africa and claimed [--] Allied fighters in just three sorties. The craziest part Eight of those kills came in a span of only ten minutes. Marseilles shooting was freakishly precise: roughly [--] rounds per plane always walking his fire from" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=k6o-wOGdApA) 2025-11-22T15:30Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "How One American B-17 Pilot Survived the 'Impossible' Flew [---] Miles with [--] Engines Down December 20th [----]. Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown's B-17 was destroyed over Germany. Three engines gone. Tail section shredded. Nine of ten crew wounded. One dead. Over [----] bullet holes.German ace Franz Stigler intercepted them at [----] feet. He had [--] kills and needed just three more for the Knight's Cross Germany's highest honor. Brown's crippled bomber was an easy kill.Stigler flew close enough to see inside the torn fuselage. Wounded men. Blood on the walls. The tail gunner's compartment was gone.He" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=kAeeD9jCzdU) 2025-11-18T05:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Italian POWs in Wisconsin Were Shocked When Farmers' Daughters Started Doing This During World War II over [-----] Italian prisoners of war were sent to work on Wisconsin farms. What happened next shocked everyoneespecially the prisoners themselves. In this video we follow the true story of Private Angelo Rossi a 23-year-old Italian soldier captured in Tunisia and sent to Fort McCoy Wisconsin in [----]. Expecting harsh treatment as an enemy prisoner Angelo instead found himself working on Robert Schneider's 280-acre farm where something completely unexpected began to unfold. This is the story of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=o-zFyerS4t4) 2025-12-24T02:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The Story of One Mechanic Who Turned Scrap Metal Into a Working Tank Behind Enemy Lines When his unit was surrounded deep behind enemy lines with three destroyed tanks and no hope of rescue one resourceful mechanic made an impossible decision: build a working tank from the wreckage. What followed was one of the most remarkable feats of improvisation in military historya Frankenstein machine cobbled together from spare parts salvaged components and sheer determination. This is the true story of survival ingenuity and the desperate engineering that turned scrap metal into a lifeline.🎯 In this" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=pXMCmAzk5YA) 2025-11-13T20:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "German POWs in Louisiana Were Shocked by How Americans Treated Them On June 18th [----] Unteroffizier Klaus Hartmann stood on a Liberty ship approaching Louisiana expecting the brutal treatment Nazi propaganda had promised. Instead he found three full meals a day paid work and treatment that exceeded Geneva Convention standards. What he discovered in American POW camps would contradict everything he'd been told about his captors. This is the untold story of [-----] German prisoners of war who worked Louisiana's cotton fields sugarcane plantations and sawmills during World War II. Men who arrived" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=q-ZZ50gdkEQ) 2026-01-13T00:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Japanese Officers Toured American Factories Before Pearl Harbor - What They Saw Terrified Them September [----]. Ford River Rouge Complex Dearborn Michigan. Commander Yamamoto Isoroku stood at the observation platform overlooking the largest industrial facility on Earth and what he saw made his stomach tighten. Below him molten iron flowed like water. Freight cars moved in endless procession. Assembly lines stretched beyond sight. The translator was explaining production numbers: [----] vehicles per day but Yamamoto had stopped listening. He was doing mathematics in his head terrible mathematics." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=slUgdL4Q6Yc) 2025-11-14T20:15Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "German POWs Were Shocked When They Visited New York City Freely In August [----] Oberleutnant Ernst Bachmann arrived in America as a prisoner of war expecting brutal treatment. Instead he discovered something that would haunt him for the rest of his life: German POWs in the United States ate better than American civilians dealing with rationing worked in Manhattan hospitals with minimal supervision and lived in conditions that felt more like refuge than imprisonment. This is the story of how German prisoners of war experienced America during World War IIeating Thanksgiving turkey while their" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=tADyoV_fzMU) 2026-01-19T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Nazi POWs Dug a 178-Foot Tunnel Out of an Arizona Prison - What Happened Next Was Pathetic On December 23rd [----] [--] German POWs executed a flawless escape from Camp Papago Park in Arizona. They had spent three months digging a 178-foot tunnel with stolen kitchen knives and tin cans. Their plan Hike to the Colorado River build rafts float to Mexico and eventually return to Germany to keep fighting. These weren't ordinary soldiers. They were U-boat commanders Luftwaffe pilots and Afrika Korps officersGermany's elite. Led by Kapitnleutnant Jrgen Wattenberg a submarine ace who had escaped POW" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ttRwACAe0gE) 2025-12-25T04:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements ""How One American Pilot Escaped a Nazi POW Camp [--] Times - They Couldnt Stop Him" At 2:47 PM on March 24th [----] Flight Lieutenant Bill Ash crash-landed his crippled Spitfire in a French farmer's field. German soldiers captured him within minutes. They had no idea what they'd just caught. Bill Ash was a 24-year-old Texan who gave up his American citizenship to fight Nazis before the U.S. even entered the war. He wasn't the best fighter pilothe only shot down one enemy plane in his entire career. But what he lacked in aerial kills he made up for in sheer determination on the ground. Over the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=uvrXyNvKE_U) 2025-11-29T19:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "How One American Mechanic's 'Stupid' Rubber Trick Made Planes Invincible In November [----] Japanese ace Saburo Sakai fired directly into an American Wildcat's fuel tank and waited for the explosion. Nothing happened. The plane just kept flying and Sakai couldn't understand why. What he didn't know was that American engineers had developed a simple but revolutionary solution to one of aviation's deadliest problems. They lined fuel tanks with a special rubber compound that swelled when it contacted fuel automatically sealing bullet holes within seconds. Before self-sealing fuel tanks 40% of RAF" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=xk4umeQf9ws) 2025-11-17T16:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "German POWs in Mississippi Refused to Leave Because They Were Treated Like Guests In June [----] German POW Hans Weber arrived at Camp Clinton in Mississippi expecting starvation and brutal treatment. Instead he was served turkey dinners given access to libraries and movie theaters and paid [--] cents a day to pick cotton on local farms. By the time the war ended Weber didn't want to leaveand eventually emigrated to America permanently. This is the forgotten story of how [-----] German prisoners of war lived in Mississippi during WWII treated better than many poor Mississippiansand certainly better" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=y8Dt7aj1pkI) 2026-01-25T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "How One American Sergeant's 'Crazy' Device Saved [---] Shermans - Germans Couldn't Stop Them How One Sergeant's Steel Tusks Saved [---] Sherman Tanks in Normandy July 14th [----]. Sergeant Curtis Culin welded four crude steel tusks to a Sherman tank using scrap from German roadblocks. Officers called it a "farm tool." General Bradley watched it punch through a Normandy hedgerow in [--] secondssomething that normally took [--] minutes and cost lives. After D-Day American tanks were trapped in Normandy's bocage country. When Shermans crossed the dense hedgerows they exposed their belly armor to German" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=zUvNJLBF8xY) 2025-11-23T21:30Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "German POWs in Texas Were Treated So Well Americans Called It 'The Fritz Ritz In May [----] German soldier Hans Weber stepped off a train in Texas expecting torture and starvation. What happened instead would shock him for the rest of his life. Camp Hearne held over [----] German POWs who ate better than American civilians attended university courses from Baylor performed operas in custom-built theaters and gained so much weight that locals sarcastically called it "The Fritz Ritz." While German families back home survived on [----] calories a day these prisoners ate [----] calories dailythe same" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Zi-yf4AIyz4) 2026-01-27T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Italian POWs in Washington Picked Apples and Never Wanted to Go Home In September [----] thousands of Italian prisoners of war arrived at camps across Washington State expecting the worst. What they found instead changed their lives forever. Private Giuseppe Benedetti had spent two years starving in the North African desert fighting a war he never believed in. When he surrendered to American forces in Tunisia he thought his life was over. Instead he was shipped to Fort Lewis Washington where he discovered something he never expected: abundance. The Italian POWs were put to work picking apples" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=RdlMUKz1qZA) 2026-01-26T23:00Z [----] followers, 18.1K engagements "German POWs in Mississippi Refused to Leave Because They Were Treated Like Guests In June [----] German POW Hans Weber arrived at Camp Clinton in Mississippi expecting starvation and brutal treatment. Instead he was served turkey dinners given access to libraries and movie theaters and paid [--] cents a day to pick cotton on local farms. By the time the war ended Weber didn't want to leaveand eventually emigrated to America permanently. This is the forgotten story of how [-----] German prisoners of war lived in Mississippi during WWII treated better than many poor Mississippiansand certainly better" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=y8Dt7aj1pkI) 2026-01-25T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "German POWs in Alabama Were Invited to American Family Dinners At 6:47 AM on November 3rd [----] Sergeant Friedrich Hartmann arrived at Camp Aliceville Alabama as a German prisoner of war. Captured at Kasserine Pass after his Panzer IV was destroyed he expected harsh treatment starvation rations and isolation. What he got instead was an invitation that would change his life forever. This is the true story of a German tank commander who destroyed American tanks in North Africa only to find himself working on an Alabama farm owned by Thomas Bradford - a man whose son was fighting against Germany" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=D7irL8Q9CdM) 2026-01-24T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "German POWs in Ohio Refused to Return to Germany After the War German POW Refused to Go Home After WWII - Here's Why At 2:47 PM on May 8th [----] Unteroffizier Lukas Reinhardt stood behind barbed wire at Camp Perry Ohio watching Americans celebrate Victory in Europe Day. The war was over. Germany had surrendered. Within weeks he'd be shipped back across the Atlantic. But Reinhardt told his bunkmate that night he'd rather stay in Ohio than return to Germany. The sergeant processing repatriation paperwork thought he was joking. He wasn't. What happened next reveals one of the most fascinating" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7-tedIBEmVw) 2026-01-23T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "German POWs in Arkansas Said Prison in America Felt Illegal In June [----] Edwin Pelz stepped off a train in Arkansas expecting the worst. As a German POW captured in North Africa he'd been warned about American brutalityforced labor starvation beatings. What he found instead changed everything he thought he knew about his enemies. Real coffee for breakfast. Hot showers. University courses. Farmers who shared their lunch. Guards who treated him like a human being. For two and a half years Pelz worked in Arkansas cotton fields and timber operations earning [--] cents a day and eating food better" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=T_LMmfW6hPQ) 2026-01-22T23:00Z [----] followers, 23.3K engagements "German POWs in Oregon Thought Theyd Been Sent to Heaven On September 12th [----] Sergeant Josef Weber stepped off a train in Oregon expecting brutality. He was a German prisoner of war captured in Tunisia shipped across the Atlantic on a Liberty Ship. For six weeks he'd been certain the Allies would execute him. Instead he got roast beef. Three meals a day. Clean mattresses. Guards who didn't shout. And apple pie from a farmer who spoke German and offered him a job after the war. Weber had grown up under Nazi propaganda that told him America was weak decadent destroyed by its own freedoms. But" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=bGFTGvdB17I) 2026-01-21T23:00Z [----] followers, 125.3K engagements "German POWs in Pennsylvania Were Allowed to Walk Into Town Alone On June 12th [----] a German POW named Martin Schneider arrived at Camp Reynolds in Pennsylvania weighing [---] pounds after months of starvation rations. What happened next changed his life forever. The treatment he received as a prisoner of war was so generous that when he was finally released in [----] he weighed [---] pounds. He said he could no longer see his eyes when he smiled. But the abundance of food was just the beginning. German POWs in Pennsylvania were given heated barracks with real mattresses paid wages allowed to attend" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XH5TKjup3Cs) 2026-01-20T23:00Z [----] followers, 64.3K engagements "German POWs Were Shocked When They Visited New York City Freely In August [----] Oberleutnant Ernst Bachmann arrived in America as a prisoner of war expecting brutal treatment. Instead he discovered something that would haunt him for the rest of his life: German POWs in the United States ate better than American civilians dealing with rationing worked in Manhattan hospitals with minimal supervision and lived in conditions that felt more like refuge than imprisonment. This is the story of how German prisoners of war experienced America during World War IIeating Thanksgiving turkey while their" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=tADyoV_fzMU) 2026-01-19T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "German POWs in Oklahoma Couldn't Believe American Hygiene Standards When Feldwebel Hans Weber stepped off a train at Fort Reno Oklahoma in May [----] he expected brutality. Nazi propaganda had told him Americans were weak starving and collapsing. What he found instead shattered everything he believed about the world. Hot showers. Clean barracks. Fried chicken and apple pie. Indoor plumbing with porcelain toilets. Ice cream on Saturdays. German prisoners of war in Oklahoma were eating better than they had in the Wehrmacht - and better than civilians back in Germany. This is the true story of how" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1jjIExLo-Ts) 2026-01-18T23:00Z [----] followers, 12.1K engagements "German POWs in Kansas Couldn't Believe American Food Portions At 2:47 PM on June 12th [----] Unteroffizier Werner Schafer stood in a processing line at Camp Concordia Kansas staring at a metal tray that made no sense. The American sergeant had just handed him more food than he'd seen in two years of war. A massive slab of beef. Mountains of mashed potatoes. Fresh bread with real butter. Coffee that actually smelled like coffee. And apple pie. Schafer weighed [---] pounds. He asked if the tray was meant for multiple men. The sergeant laughed and said it was just lunch. One meal. What Schafer" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=27BZKlbxZTw) 2026-01-17T23:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "German POWs in California Were Taken to the Ocean - What Happened Next Shocked Them July 12th [----]. Unteroffizier Klaus Becker stood in a U.S. Army truck heading west from Camp Cooke California certain the Americans were taking him somewhere to be executed. He could smell salt air. He had never seen the Pacific Ocean. The guards hadn't explained where they were going. What Becker didn't know was that within two hours everything he believed about his captors would change forever. This is the true story of how German POWs in California were treated during World War IIand why thousands of them" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FauloFbuzO4) 2026-01-16T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "German POWs Thought They Were Staying at the Hilton Hotel June [----]. Unteroffizier Werner Mller was captured by American forces near Anzio Italy. Everything he'd been told said he was heading to torture starvation and death. His own officers had warned him: surrender to the Americans and you won't survive. Then the plane landed in America. What Mller discovered in that Nebraska prison camp would shatter everything the Third Reich had taught him. The food was better than what German soldiers ate. The beds had actual pillows. American families watched soccer matches through the fence. And a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z1iyAXUilYc) 2026-01-15T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "German POWs in Alabama Were Paid MORE Than Local Workers - Americans Couldn't Believe It In [----] farmer Robert Hayes watched enemy soldiers arrive at his Alabama farm to pick his cotton. The U.S. government charged him [--] cents per hour for their labor. His regular crew He paid them [--] cents per day. German prisoners of war earned [--] cents daily - the same as American soldiers. Meanwhile local farmworkers especially Black laborers in the South made a fraction of that amount doing identical work. The Geneva Convention required equal treatment for POWs but nobody had thought about what that" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2nWuwP_NnjY) 2026-01-14T23:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Italian POWs in Florida Had It So Good They Begged to Stay After War At 2:47 PM on September 23rd [----] Private Angelo Martinelli stood in the processing line at Camp Blanding Florida weighing just [---] pounds after months of starvation in North Africa. He expected a prison camphard labor barbed wire maybe slow death from hunger. Instead he walked into a mess hall and found roasted chicken mashed potatoes fresh bread and apple pie. Just a regular Thursday dinner. What happened next changed his life forever. This is the untold story of [-----] Italian prisoners of war who were sent to camps across" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=H1bxK7LY9JQ) 2026-01-13T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "German POWs in Louisiana Were Shocked by How Americans Treated Them On June 18th [----] Unteroffizier Klaus Hartmann stood on a Liberty ship approaching Louisiana expecting the brutal treatment Nazi propaganda had promised. Instead he found three full meals a day paid work and treatment that exceeded Geneva Convention standards. What he discovered in American POW camps would contradict everything he'd been told about his captors. This is the untold story of [-----] German prisoners of war who worked Louisiana's cotton fields sugarcane plantations and sawmills during World War II. Men who arrived" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=q-ZZ50gdkEQ) 2026-01-13T00:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "German POWs in Arizona Refused to Believe America Was This Beautiful December 23rd [----]. Gnter Grwe stood in a prison camp canteen staring at ice cream and Coca-Colatwo things he hadn't seen in three years. His hands were shaking. Not from fear. From the sudden realization that everything the Reich had told him about America was a lie. Camp Papago Park near Phoenix Arizona housed [----] German prisoners mostly U-boat sailors. What happened there defied everything they'd been taught about the enemy. The food was better than what German civilians ate. The treatment followed rules instead of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=AqF3Q_lbRfs) 2026-01-11T23:00Z [----] followers, 16.5K engagements "German POWs in Texas Thought the Desert Would Kill Them - Got AC Cabins and Steak Dinners In June [----] Corporal Rudolf Thill stepped off a train in Hearne Texas expecting death in the desert. What he found instead would haunt him for the rest of his life. Camp Hearne wasn't a prison camp. It was something else entirely. Hot showers. Real meat. White bread. Ice cream once a week. German prisoners from Rommel's Afrika Korps ate better than American civilians rationing food at home. They built elaborate fountains with running water. Miniature castles with moats. They attended university classes." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=GLvk2oy1MpE) 2026-01-10T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Italian POWs in California Were Sent to Napa Valley Vineyards Americans Let Them Make Wine At 7:15 AM on October 12th [----] Italian prisoner of war Antonio Bellini stood alone in a Napa Valley vineyard holding pruning shears while his American guard drove away. No fence. No supervision. Just trust. What happened over the next two years would change California wine forever. [-----] Italian POWs arrived in America during WWII. Many were sent to California vineyards during a desperate labor shortage. The vineyard owners expected cheap labor. What they got was something completely different. These" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=g5wpbO4nVRQ) 2026-01-09T23:00Z [----] followers, 12.8K engagements "German POWs in California Were Taken to See the Redwoods - The Massive Trees Left Them Stunned At 2:11 in the afternoon on June 18th [----] Oberfeldwebel Klaus Richter stood in the bed of a Dodge truck rolling north through Humboldt County California watching trees appear through the coastal fog that made no sense to him. Twenty-nine years old captured in Tunisia two years earlier three years in the Afrika Korps before that. He had seen the deserts of North Africa the mountains of Sicily the farmland of central California where he had spent the past eighteen months picking oranges and walnuts." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=KylZ5eV6-WI) 2026-01-08T23:00Z [----] followers, 11.9K engagements "German POWs in Florida Were Taken to the Beach - They Were Shocked Americans Just Let Them Swim Nazi POWs in Florida Were Taken to the Beach - They Were Shocked Americans Just Let Them Swim In June [----] German prisoner Klaus Weber stood in the back of an American Army truck trying to understand what was happening. Captured in Tunisia shipped across the Atlantic expecting brutal prison conditionsinstead he was told he was going swimming. Swimming. In the middle of a war. As a prisoner. This is the forgotten story of how America treated [-----] German POWs held in Florida during World War II." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=MkXeF8OFbzE) 2026-01-07T23:00Z [----] followers, 302.8K engagements "Japanese POWs Held in Pearl Harbor Described it As HEAVEN December 8th [----]. Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki washes up on an Oahu beach as America's first Japanese POW. He's been trained his entire life that capture means torture execution and ultimate dishonor. He begs his captors to shoot him. They refuse. What happens next breaks everything he's been taught about Americans. Instead of torture chambers he finds clean beds with white linen sheets. Instead of starvation rations he gets eggs bacon coffee and fruitthree times a day. Instead of execution he gets English classes. Instead of brutal labor he" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=gUN_4lFn6nU) 2026-01-06T23:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Italian POWs Held in America Called It Almost PARADISE Italian POWs in America: From Starvation to Paradise The shocking true story of [-----] Italian prisoners of war who arrived in America expecting punishment and found abundance beyond imagination. After surviving starvation rations in North Africa and brutal treatment under French-Moroccan guards captured Italian soldier Virgilio Razzo stepped into an American POW camp in Louisiana and couldn't believe what he saw: eggs bacon steak oranges real coffee hot showers clean barracks and a pack of cigarettes waiting at his table. Food he hadn't" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6IcAqoxhXvQ) 2026-01-06T00:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Italian POWs Begged to Stay in America After the War Ended On the morning of September 12th [----] Private Bruno Piva stood in the cargo hold of a Liberty ship watching America emerge from the fog. He was a prisoner of war. A baker from Genoa who had never fired his rifle at anyone. The Americans were taking him to a place called Arkansas. What happened next changed everything. [-----] Italian POWs were brought to camps across [--] American states. They expected hatred. They got fresh milk mattresses with springs and [----] calories a day. They got paid. They played bocce. They watched opera" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Wpy46fkG6yE) 2026-01-04T23:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "German POWs Held in Minnesota Described It as HEAVEN In June [----] German tank gunner Hans Mller was captured after D-Day and shipped to America as a prisoner of war. Starving terrified and expecting the worst he arrived at a POW camp in Minnesota. What happened next shocked himand changed his life forever. Instead of punishment Mller found three hot meals a day. Instead of hard labor camps he got paid work on local farms. Instead of cruelty he received treatment that exceeded even what he'd experienced in his own military. American POW camps fed German prisoners roast beef and apple pie while" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IEXK5W1sHrw) 2026-01-03T23:00Z [----] followers, 335.9K engagements "They're Not What We Expected American Women React to German POWs in the USA At 7:32 on the morning of June 14th [----] Nancy Bond watched a military truck carrying twelve German prisoners of war arrive at her family's apple orchard in Winchester Virginia. She was [--] years old engaged to an American soldier fighting overseas and everything she knew about Germans came from wartime propaganda. Her father warned her to stay inside. Her mother locked the silverware. The sheriff said these men were dangerous. What Nancy didn't know was that within [--] months the man her community called the enemy" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2RVPSUWjFV8) 2026-01-03T00:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Italian POWs Described American POW Camps as Paradise on Earth From Enemy Prisoner to American Citizen: The Incredible True Story of Giuseppe Mariani On September 8th [----] Italian POW Giuseppe Mariani stood in a Seattle barracks stunned by a plate piled with roast beef and mashed potatoes. Just months earlier he'd been surviving on grass in a British prison camp in North Africa weighing barely [---] pounds. This is the extraordinary true story of how America's humane treatment of Italian prisoners during World War II transformed enemies into citizens and changed lives forever. What You'll" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VkwxzNXEXf8) 2026-01-02T00:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "German Prisoners Couldn't Believe Their Eyes When They Saw America's Factories In June [----] Oberleutnant Franz Hoffman arrived in New York as a prisoner of war. What he witnessed over the next [--] months would shatter everything the Wehrmacht had told him about America. This is the true story of a decorated German officer who saw American industrial might firsthandand understood that Germany never stood a chance. From the skyline of New York to the wheat fields of Oklahoma from aircraft factories running 24-hour shifts to salvage yards throwing away perfectly good equipment Hoffman documented" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=E_rbNr2wF8g) 2025-12-31T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "German POWs in Iowa Couldn't Believe American Farmers Treated Them Like This August [----]. Franz Schneider went from commanding troops at Normandy to holding a pitchfork in rural Iowa. His new boss A farmer whose son was overseas shooting at Germans just like him. What happened next defied everything both men expected. This is the untold story of Camp Algonawhere [-----] German POWs were sent to America's heartland to save the harvest. Where enemies shared lunch in Iowa barns. Where a farmer's wife sent care packages to Munich while her son fought through France. Where hatred slowly gave way to" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZkZfYE4XKII) 2025-12-30T00:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "How German POWs Got Drunk on New Year's Eve December 31st [----]. Camp Alva Oklahoma. While their country burned thousands of miles away [--] German prisoners of war were about to pull off something extraordinary: getting completely drunk right under the noses of their American guards. This is the true story of Unteroffizier Klaus Becker Gefreiter Hans Muller and a makeshift distillery hidden beneath the floorboards of Barracks [--]. For [--] weeks they turned potato peelings stolen sugar and scavenged copper pipe into 140-proof alcohol. They engineered a precision still that would've impressed" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=jZ60gT1GmzY) 2025-12-28T23:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The Christmas Dinner That Made German POWs Cry 5:53 PM - Colonel James Weston addresses [---] German POWs announces they'll receive the same Christmas meal as American soldiers 6:02 PM - Formation breaks prisoners begin filing into mess hall in groups of [--] 6:34 PM - Klaus Hartmann (26 captured at Normandy June [--] 1944) enters and receives full turkey dinner with all accompaniments KEY MOMENT (6:34-6:47 PM) Prisoners experience severe emotional breakdown while eating. Many cry some vomit from guilt. Ernst Weber (41 Hamburg lawyer father of three) stares at his plate weepinghis daughter Greta (8" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BDT6Jtz_arw) 2025-12-27T23:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The German POW Who Escaped and Lived in the US for [--] Years Without Being Caught In [----] German POW Georg Grtner escaped from a New Mexico prison camp and vanished into the American desert with just $14 in his pocket. For the next [--] years he lived as "Dennis Whiles"a ski instructor business owner and respected community memberwhile the FBI searched for him. He married paid taxes joined the Rotary Club and even had his photo published in newspapers. He was hiding in plain sight and nobody knew. Then in [----] at age [--] he walked into his living room and told his wife of [--] years a secret that" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=kvZbDvRU0cA) 2025-12-26T23:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Italian POWs in Florida Refused to Leave After the War Ended - Here's Why In [----] thousands of Italian prisoners of war were sent to camps across Florida. They were expected to hate their captivity and count the days until they could return home. But something unexpected happened. When the war ended in [----] and repatriation ships arrived many of these prisoners cried. They begged the Americans to let them stay. Some tried to hide. Guards reported prisoners asking "Can we just stay" This is the true story of Sergeant Antonio Bellini and over [----] Italian POWs who were sent to Florida as" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7hJQOij5Nbg) 2025-12-26T05:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The German POW Who Escaped to Chicago and Lived as an American for [--] Years Before Anyone Knew In September [----] German POW Georg Grtner walked away from Camp Deming New Mexico and vanished into America for [--] years. This video covers his capture in North Africa life as a prisoner in the New Mexico desert his carefully planned escape through 120-degree heat and his transformation into Dennis F. Whilesan American ski instructor and golf pro. We explore how he forged documents in Los Angeles moved between [--] cities to avoid detection built friendships and relationships while hiding his true" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=B5wcP4gRcDQ) 2025-12-25T22:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Nazi POWs Dug a 178-Foot Tunnel Out of an Arizona Prison - What Happened Next Was Pathetic On December 23rd [----] [--] German POWs executed a flawless escape from Camp Papago Park in Arizona. They had spent three months digging a 178-foot tunnel with stolen kitchen knives and tin cans. Their plan Hike to the Colorado River build rafts float to Mexico and eventually return to Germany to keep fighting. These weren't ordinary soldiers. They were U-boat commanders Luftwaffe pilots and Afrika Korps officersGermany's elite. Led by Kapitnleutnant Jrgen Wattenberg a submarine ace who had escaped POW" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ttRwACAe0gE) 2025-12-25T04:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "German POWs in Oklahoma Refused to Leave America After the War Ended When German POW Heinrich Goedecke stood at the fence of Fort Reno camp on May 8th [----] watching American guards celebrate Germany's surrender he knew he was going home. Back to a country reduced to rubble. Back to a family eating potato peels and burning furniture to stay warm. Back to a Soviet-occupied zone where men were being shipped to labor camps in Siberia. For the past [--] months Heinrich had worked on Oklahoma farms. Three meals a day. Clean bed. [--] cents a day in wages. The farmer's wife served him fried chicken at" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QNSq6osWpAs) 2025-12-24T22:00Z [----] followers, 25.8K engagements "Italian POWs in Wisconsin Were Shocked When Farmers' Daughters Started Doing This During World War II over [-----] Italian prisoners of war were sent to work on Wisconsin farms. What happened next shocked everyoneespecially the prisoners themselves. In this video we follow the true story of Private Angelo Rossi a 23-year-old Italian soldier captured in Tunisia and sent to Fort McCoy Wisconsin in [----]. Expecting harsh treatment as an enemy prisoner Angelo instead found himself working on Robert Schneider's 280-acre farm where something completely unexpected began to unfold. This is the story of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=o-zFyerS4t4) 2025-12-24T02:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Nazi POWs Were Shocked The Untold Truth of Americas WWII Camp Hearne When German POW Leutnant Hans Kramer stepped off a train in Texas on July 18th [----] he expected punishment. Instead he found steak dinners tennis courts and living conditions better than most American civilians. This is the shocking true story of Camp Hearnewhere [----] Nazi prisoners lived in comfort while American families dealt with strict rationing. This story isn't just about POWs eating wellit's about the cost of maintaining moral authority during war the resentment that builds when principles conflict with emotion and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6oDsicZ1qXM) 2025-12-22T23:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Nazi POWs in Texas Were Shown American Grocery Stores - What They Saw Left Them Speechless When Heinrich Vogel stepped into a small Texas grocery store in [----] he couldn't believe his eyes. After years of Nazi propaganda claiming America was starving and collapsing this German officer found shelves overflowing with foodmore than he'd seen in any German store since before the war. This is the untold story of German POWs held in Texas during WWII who lived better as prisoners than they did as soldiers. They ate [----] calories a day. They gained weight. They had hot showers clean barracks and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZleMgTrpjfE) 2025-12-21T23:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Nazi POWs in New York Were Taken to See the Statue of Liberty - They Couldn't Believe it Was Real June 12th [----]. Oberfeldwebel Klaus Hartmann stood on the deck of a Liberty Ship entering New York Harbor. For three years Nazi propaganda had told him that American cities were in ruinsbombed by the Luftwaffe economies collapsed populations starving. Then he saw the Statue of Liberty standing untouched. The Manhattan skyline intact. No bomb damage. No destruction. Everything he'd been told was a lie. What happened next would change his understanding of everything he'd fought for. This is the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5Np6neEHkF0) 2025-12-20T00:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Nazi POWs in Texas Were Fed Steak and Ice Cream - They Thought it Was a Trick June 8th [----]. A German POW stands in a Texas mess hall staring at more food than he's seen in four years of war. Roast beef. Real coffee. Butter. And ice cream. His first thought "They're trying to poison us." Heinrich Kramer had survived four years in the Wehrmacht eating starvation rations. He'd watched his daily bread shrink from [---] grams to [---] grams. He'd gone days without hot food in Tunisia before his Panzer unit ran out of fuel and he was captured. Now he's at Camp Hearne Texasa place the locals would call" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IiV8O6eBNkg) 2025-12-18T23:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Italian POWs in Florida Refused to Leave After the War Ended - What They Found Changed Everything This story proves that sometimes losing a war means winning a life. Sometimes being captured means being freed. Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you turns out to be the best thing. At 2:47 PM on September 17th [----] Italian POW Antonio Caruso stood in a processing line at Camp Blanding Florida watching American soldiers hand out oranges like newspapers. Three per man. Take as many as you want. More in the mess hall. Caruso had surrendered in Sicily after three years fighting in North" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ts9czPpjKvE) 2025-12-17T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Nazi POWs in Colorado Were Taken to Aspen Mountain - They Couldn't Believe This Was Prison At 2:47 PM on June 23rd [----] German Unteroffizier Klaus Becker stepped off a truck outside Leadville Colorado and stared at the Rocky Mountains thinking he was being set up for a propaganda photograph. He'd been a prisoner of war for two months captured in Tunisia expecting slave labor or worse. Instead the Americans handed him a work assignment cutting timber at [-----] feet with a view that stretched sixty miles. The breakfast that next morning broke his brain: scrambled eggs bacon toast with real" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QwPoym4hGmk) 2025-12-16T23:15Z [----] followers, 52.6K engagements "Italian POWs in California Thought They Were Being Punished When Given This Job September [----]. Italian prisoner Giuseppe Toselli expected rock quarries and hard labor when he arrived in California. Instead American guards handed him an assignment that made him furious: vineyard work. He thought it was mockery. Degrading "peasant work" designed to humiliate trained craftsmen. He had no idea that within [--] months he'd own part of that vineyard. That his fellow prisonerssent to restaurant kitchens and farmswould become some of California's most successful businessmen. That the "punishment" they" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=TnOnx-yPRHY) 2025-12-16T00:15Z [----] followers, 99.5K engagements "German POWs in Texas Couldn't Believe They Could Go to the Movies In June [----] Unteroffizier Klaus Hartmann arrived at Camp Hearne Texas expecting harsh prison conditions. What he found instead shocked him: swimming pools movie theaters ice cream three times a week and treatment better than he'd received as a soldier in the German army. This is the incredible true story of German prisoners of war in Texas during World War II who attended Hollywood films alongside American civilians ate better food than people back home in Germany played organized soccer and some even fell in love with local" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WS8eKhUhKoE) 2025-12-15T00:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Nazi POWs in Arizona Were Taken to the Grand Canyon - They Couldn't Believe it Was Real In December [----] [--] German POWs escaped from Camp Papago Park near Phoenix Arizona through a 178-foot tunnel they'd spent four months digging. But their elaborate escape plan had one fatal flaw - they thought Arizona's rivers would have water. Werner Kraus and his fellow prisoners believed everything at the camp was American propaganda. The abundant food Fake. The Grand Canyon photographs in the library Hollywood creations. Their commanding officer U-boat captain Jrgen Wattenberg had convinced them it was" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=L2HtJb1BnHE) 2025-12-14T01:15Z [----] followers, 163.4K engagements "Italian POWs in New York Couldn't Believe They Were Being Paid to Work In May [----] Private Marco Benedetti was captured in Tunisia expecting the worststarvation abuse maybe execution. Instead he was shipped to America and found himself eating roast beef sandwiches earning [--] cents a day and living better than he ever had as a free man in Italy. This is the forgotten story of [-----] Italian prisoners of war who were sent to camps across the United States during World War II. What they found there shocked them: three meals a day with real meat clean barracks with electricity medical care and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=YXVofZpstW8) 2025-12-12T23:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Nazi POWs in Louisiana Couldn't Believe What Americans Considered 'Prison In June [----] [-----] German POWs arrived at prison camps across Louisiana expecting torture starvation and death. What they found on their dinner trays that first night shocked them more than anything they'd experienced in two years of brutal desert warfare. Karl Weber stepped off a transport truck at Camp Ruston weighing [---] pounds having not eaten a full meal in [--] days. He'd been told by SS officers that American prison camps would be death campsno mercy no Geneva Convention just slow death through neglect and cruelty." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Dsd1R3Yc-GA) 2025-12-11T23:30Z [----] followers, 93K engagements "Nazi POWs Could Eat at American Diners But Black Soldiers Couldn't - The Irony Broke Them August 3rd [----]. Sergeant Lloyd Brown stood outside a lunch counter in Kansas watching five German prisoners of war sit down and order food. Brown was wearing a U.S. Army uniform. His job was to guard these enemy soldiers. But when he tried to enter the same diner he was refused service. The reason He was Black. This wasn't an isolated incident. Across America during World War II approximately [------] German POWs were held in camps mostly in the South. Due to the Geneva Convention they were treated" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WbcIgokxm1o) 2025-12-10T23:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "How One Nazi POW Escaped Camp Grant and Lived Free in America At 3:47 PM on September 21st [----] German Sergeant Reinhold Pabel walked away from a POW work detail with just $10.20 in his pocket. What happened next shocked the FBI and changed everything we thought we knew about World War II prisoners. Pabel was a combat veteran of the brutal Russian front and Italian campaign. Captured wounded and sent to Camp Grant Illinois he experienced something he never expected: American generosity. The food was incredible. The treatment was humane. He saw opportunity everywhere. But when the war ended" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=AvreH9DX7Do) 2025-12-09T21:30Z [----] followers, 111.7K engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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"German POWs in Florida Were Taken to the Beach - They Were Shocked Americans Just Let Them Swim Nazi POWs in Florida Were Taken to the Beach - They Were Shocked Americans Just Let Them Swim In June [----] German prisoner Klaus Weber stood in the back of an American Army truck trying to understand what was happening. Captured in Tunisia shipped across the Atlantic expecting brutal prison conditionsinstead he was told he was going swimming. Swimming. In the middle of a war. As a prisoner. This is the forgotten story of how America treated [-----] German POWs held in Florida during World War II."
YouTube Link 2026-01-07T23:00Z [----] followers, 302.8K engagements
"Nazi POWs in Louisiana Couldn't Believe What Americans Considered 'Prison In June [----] [-----] German POWs arrived at prison camps across Louisiana expecting torture starvation and death. What they found on their dinner trays that first night shocked them more than anything they'd experienced in two years of brutal desert warfare. Karl Weber stepped off a transport truck at Camp Ruston weighing [---] pounds having not eaten a full meal in [--] days. He'd been told by SS officers that American prison camps would be death campsno mercy no Geneva Convention just slow death through neglect and cruelty."
YouTube Link 2025-12-11T23:30Z [----] followers, 93K engagements
"German POWs in Pennsylvania Were Allowed to Walk Into Town Alone On June 12th [----] a German POW named Martin Schneider arrived at Camp Reynolds in Pennsylvania weighing [---] pounds after months of starvation rations. What happened next changed his life forever. The treatment he received as a prisoner of war was so generous that when he was finally released in [----] he weighed [---] pounds. He said he could no longer see his eyes when he smiled. But the abundance of food was just the beginning. German POWs in Pennsylvania were given heated barracks with real mattresses paid wages allowed to attend"
YouTube Link 2026-01-20T23:00Z [----] followers, 64.3K engagements
"Italian POWs in Washington Picked Apples and Never Wanted to Go Home In September [----] thousands of Italian prisoners of war arrived at camps across Washington State expecting the worst. What they found instead changed their lives forever. Private Giuseppe Benedetti had spent two years starving in the North African desert fighting a war he never believed in. When he surrendered to American forces in Tunisia he thought his life was over. Instead he was shipped to Fort Lewis Washington where he discovered something he never expected: abundance. The Italian POWs were put to work picking apples"
YouTube Link 2026-01-26T23:00Z [----] followers, 18.1K engagements
"German POWs in Arkansas Said Prison in America Felt Illegal In June [----] Edwin Pelz stepped off a train in Arkansas expecting the worst. As a German POW captured in North Africa he'd been warned about American brutalityforced labor starvation beatings. What he found instead changed everything he thought he knew about his enemies. Real coffee for breakfast. Hot showers. University courses. Farmers who shared their lunch. Guards who treated him like a human being. For two and a half years Pelz worked in Arkansas cotton fields and timber operations earning [--] cents a day and eating food better"
YouTube Link 2026-01-22T23:00Z [----] followers, 23.3K engagements
"German POWs in Texas Were Treated So Well Americans Called It 'The Fritz Ritz In May [----] German soldier Hans Weber stepped off a train in Texas expecting torture and starvation. What happened instead would shock him for the rest of his life. Camp Hearne held over [----] German POWs who ate better than American civilians attended university courses from Baylor performed operas in custom-built theaters and gained so much weight that locals sarcastically called it "The Fritz Ritz." While German families back home survived on [----] calories a day these prisoners ate [----] calories dailythe same"
YouTube Link 2026-01-27T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"How One Nazi POW Escaped Camp Grant and Lived Free in America At 3:47 PM on September 21st [----] German Sergeant Reinhold Pabel walked away from a POW work detail with just $10.20 in his pocket. What happened next shocked the FBI and changed everything we thought we knew about World War II prisoners. Pabel was a combat veteran of the brutal Russian front and Italian campaign. Captured wounded and sent to Camp Grant Illinois he experienced something he never expected: American generosity. The food was incredible. The treatment was humane. He saw opportunity everywhere. But when the war ended"
YouTube Link 2025-12-09T21:30Z [----] followers, 111.7K engagements
"German POWs Held in Minnesota Described It as HEAVEN In June [----] German tank gunner Hans Mller was captured after D-Day and shipped to America as a prisoner of war. Starving terrified and expecting the worst he arrived at a POW camp in Minnesota. What happened next shocked himand changed his life forever. Instead of punishment Mller found three hot meals a day. Instead of hard labor camps he got paid work on local farms. Instead of cruelty he received treatment that exceeded even what he'd experienced in his own military. American POW camps fed German prisoners roast beef and apple pie while"
YouTube Link 2026-01-03T23:00Z [----] followers, 335.9K engagements
"Nazi POWs in Arizona Were Taken to the Grand Canyon - They Couldn't Believe it Was Real In December [----] [--] German POWs escaped from Camp Papago Park near Phoenix Arizona through a 178-foot tunnel they'd spent four months digging. But their elaborate escape plan had one fatal flaw - they thought Arizona's rivers would have water. Werner Kraus and his fellow prisoners believed everything at the camp was American propaganda. The abundant food Fake. The Grand Canyon photographs in the library Hollywood creations. Their commanding officer U-boat captain Jrgen Wattenberg had convinced them it was"
YouTube Link 2025-12-14T01:15Z [----] followers, 163.4K engagements
"Italian POWs in California Thought They Were Being Punished When Given This Job September [----]. Italian prisoner Giuseppe Toselli expected rock quarries and hard labor when he arrived in California. Instead American guards handed him an assignment that made him furious: vineyard work. He thought it was mockery. Degrading "peasant work" designed to humiliate trained craftsmen. He had no idea that within [--] months he'd own part of that vineyard. That his fellow prisonerssent to restaurant kitchens and farmswould become some of California's most successful businessmen. That the "punishment" they"
YouTube Link 2025-12-16T00:15Z [----] followers, 99.5K engagements
"German POWs in Oregon Thought Theyd Been Sent to Heaven On September 12th [----] Sergeant Josef Weber stepped off a train in Oregon expecting brutality. He was a German prisoner of war captured in Tunisia shipped across the Atlantic on a Liberty Ship. For six weeks he'd been certain the Allies would execute him. Instead he got roast beef. Three meals a day. Clean mattresses. Guards who didn't shout. And apple pie from a farmer who spoke German and offered him a job after the war. Weber had grown up under Nazi propaganda that told him America was weak decadent destroyed by its own freedoms. But"
YouTube Link 2026-01-21T23:00Z [----] followers, 125.3K engagements
""Nazis Laughed at His 'Cardboard' Plane Until It Delivered [--] Tons of Bombs They Never Saw Coming" Nazis Laughed at His 'Cardboard' Plane Until It Delivered [--] Tons of Bombs They Never Saw Coming On February 18th [----] Squadron Leader Robert Bateson flew a wooden airplane into one of the most dangerous missions of WWII. The Germans had been mocking the de Havilland Mosquito for yearscalling it a toy a furniture factory experiment a death trap made of plywood and glue. Hermann Gring head of the Luftwaffe was furious that Britain was "wasting" resources building bombers out of wood when they had"
YouTube Link 2025-12-03T21:30Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Female Soviet POWs Liberated From German Camps - What Happened Next Was Worse April 17th [----]. Ravensbrck concentration camp Germany.Senior Sergeant Yekaterina Mikhailova watched Red Army tanks smash through the gates. She had survived [--] years and [--] months of Nazi captivity. She had endured starvation that dropped her weight from 62kg to 38kg. She had watched [---] women from her barracks die. When Soviet soldiers cut through the barbed wire she wept with joy. She embraced the first Red Army lieutenant she saw."We're saved" she told her fellow prisoners. "We're finally saved."She was"
YouTube Link 2025-11-16T18:00Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"German POWs in Oklahoma Couldn't Believe American Hygiene Standards When Feldwebel Hans Weber stepped off a train at Fort Reno Oklahoma in May [----] he expected brutality. Nazi propaganda had told him Americans were weak starving and collapsing. What he found instead shattered everything he believed about the world. Hot showers. Clean barracks. Fried chicken and apple pie. Indoor plumbing with porcelain toilets. Ice cream on Saturdays. German prisoners of war in Oklahoma were eating better than they had in the Wehrmacht - and better than civilians back in Germany. This is the true story of how"
YouTube Link 2026-01-18T23:00Z [----] followers, 12.1K engagements
"German POWs in Kansas Couldn't Believe American Food Portions At 2:47 PM on June 12th [----] Unteroffizier Werner Schafer stood in a processing line at Camp Concordia Kansas staring at a metal tray that made no sense. The American sergeant had just handed him more food than he'd seen in two years of war. A massive slab of beef. Mountains of mashed potatoes. Fresh bread with real butter. Coffee that actually smelled like coffee. And apple pie. Schafer weighed [---] pounds. He asked if the tray was meant for multiple men. The sergeant laughed and said it was just lunch. One meal. What Schafer"
YouTube Link 2026-01-17T23:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"What Nazi POWs Found on Their Dinner Trays in Texas Shocked Them More Than War On May 27th [----] German officer Werner Kraus stood in a chow line at Camp Hearne Texas staring at something he hadn't seen in over a year: real eggs sliced ham fresh tomatoes butter and cold milk. For a soldier who'd spent months starving in North Africa eating British tinned beef and German hardtack the abundance was incomprehensible. This is the untold story of over [-----] German POWs sent to Texas during World War IIand how what they found at dinner shocked them more than combat ever did. The "Fritz Ritz" as"
YouTube Link 2025-12-07T21:00Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"German POWs in Alabama Were Paid MORE Than Local Workers - Americans Couldn't Believe It In [----] farmer Robert Hayes watched enemy soldiers arrive at his Alabama farm to pick his cotton. The U.S. government charged him [--] cents per hour for their labor. His regular crew He paid them [--] cents per day. German prisoners of war earned [--] cents daily - the same as American soldiers. Meanwhile local farmworkers especially Black laborers in the South made a fraction of that amount doing identical work. The Geneva Convention required equal treatment for POWs but nobody had thought about what that"
YouTube Link 2026-01-14T23:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Nazi POWs in New York Were Taken to See the Statue of Liberty - They Couldn't Believe it Was Real June 12th [----]. Oberfeldwebel Klaus Hartmann stood on the deck of a Liberty Ship entering New York Harbor. For three years Nazi propaganda had told him that American cities were in ruinsbombed by the Luftwaffe economies collapsed populations starving. Then he saw the Statue of Liberty standing untouched. The Manhattan skyline intact. No bomb damage. No destruction. Everything he'd been told was a lie. What happened next would change his understanding of everything he'd fought for. This is the"
YouTube Link 2025-12-20T00:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Nazi POWs Were Shocked The Untold Truth of Americas WWII Camp Hearne When German POW Leutnant Hans Kramer stepped off a train in Texas on July 18th [----] he expected punishment. Instead he found steak dinners tennis courts and living conditions better than most American civilians. This is the shocking true story of Camp Hearnewhere [----] Nazi prisoners lived in comfort while American families dealt with strict rationing. This story isn't just about POWs eating wellit's about the cost of maintaining moral authority during war the resentment that builds when principles conflict with emotion and"
YouTube Link 2025-12-22T23:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"German POWs in Ohio Refused to Return to Germany After the War German POW Refused to Go Home After WWII - Here's Why At 2:47 PM on May 8th [----] Unteroffizier Lukas Reinhardt stood behind barbed wire at Camp Perry Ohio watching Americans celebrate Victory in Europe Day. The war was over. Germany had surrendered. Within weeks he'd be shipped back across the Atlantic. But Reinhardt told his bunkmate that night he'd rather stay in Ohio than return to Germany. The sergeant processing repatriation paperwork thought he was joking. He wasn't. What happened next reveals one of the most fascinating"
YouTube Link 2026-01-23T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Italian POWs in Florida Refused to Leave After the War Ended - Here's Why In [----] thousands of Italian prisoners of war were sent to camps across Florida. They were expected to hate their captivity and count the days until they could return home. But something unexpected happened. When the war ended in [----] and repatriation ships arrived many of these prisoners cried. They begged the Americans to let them stay. Some tried to hide. Guards reported prisoners asking "Can we just stay" This is the true story of Sergeant Antonio Bellini and over [----] Italian POWs who were sent to Florida as"
YouTube Link 2025-12-26T05:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"German POWs in Texas Couldn't Believe They Were Eating Better Than Americans In this video we explore how German POWs in Texas during WW2 were living better than most Americans back home. While folks stateside were dealing with strict rationing these captured soldiers were eating 3000+ calories a day with milk butter and meat on the menu. Locals were so pissed they called the camps "The Fritz Ritz." The craziest part Many of these guys actually gained weight as prisoners and some even tried to come back to America after the war ended. We're talking about prisoners eating better than their own"
YouTube Link 2025-11-23T00:15Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"How One American Destroyer Charged [--] Battleships And Saved [---] Ships in [--] Hours October 25th [----]. Commander Ernest Evans is sailing off the Philippines when four Japanese battleships appear on the horizon. The lead ship is Yamato - the biggest baddest warship ever built. Its shells weigh as much as a pickup truck. Its armor is [--] inches thick. Evans is commanding USS Johnston a destroyer. His ship weighs [----] tons. Yamato weighs [-----] tons. It's like a Honda Civic staring down a freight train. Behind Yamato are three more battleships six heavy cruisers and eleven destroyers. They're heading"
YouTube Link 2025-11-20T05:00Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"German POWs in Arizona Refused to Believe America Was This Beautiful December 23rd [----]. Gnter Grwe stood in a prison camp canteen staring at ice cream and Coca-Colatwo things he hadn't seen in three years. His hands were shaking. Not from fear. From the sudden realization that everything the Reich had told him about America was a lie. Camp Papago Park near Phoenix Arizona housed [----] German prisoners mostly U-boat sailors. What happened there defied everything they'd been taught about the enemy. The food was better than what German civilians ate. The treatment followed rules instead of"
YouTube Link 2026-01-11T23:00Z [----] followers, 16.5K engagements
"The German POW Who Escaped to Chicago and Lived as an American for [--] Years Before Anyone Knew In September [----] German POW Georg Grtner walked away from Camp Deming New Mexico and vanished into America for [--] years. This video covers his capture in North Africa life as a prisoner in the New Mexico desert his carefully planned escape through 120-degree heat and his transformation into Dennis F. Whilesan American ski instructor and golf pro. We explore how he forged documents in Los Angeles moved between [--] cities to avoid detection built friendships and relationships while hiding his true"
YouTube Link 2025-12-25T22:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The Christmas Dinner That Made German POWs Cry 5:53 PM - Colonel James Weston addresses [---] German POWs announces they'll receive the same Christmas meal as American soldiers 6:02 PM - Formation breaks prisoners begin filing into mess hall in groups of [--] 6:34 PM - Klaus Hartmann (26 captured at Normandy June [--] 1944) enters and receives full turkey dinner with all accompaniments KEY MOMENT (6:34-6:47 PM) Prisoners experience severe emotional breakdown while eating. Many cry some vomit from guilt. Ernst Weber (41 Hamburg lawyer father of three) stares at his plate weepinghis daughter Greta (8"
YouTube Link 2025-12-27T23:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"How American Bombers Destroyed [----] Luftwaffe Planes in One Week - Hitler Fired His Air Chief In February [----] American bombers and fighters launched "Big Week" - a six-day air offensive that destroyed the Luftwaffe. Over [----] American planes escorted by P-51 Mustangs struck aircraft factories across Germany. The Luftwaffe lost [---] fighters and [---] irreplaceable pilots in six days. Germany could rebuild planes but couldn't replace experienced pilots. By D-Day the Allies controlled the skies. This week changed the war forever. 📢 What war story should we cover next Let us know in the comments."
YouTube Link 2025-11-23T14:30Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"German POWs in Alabama Were Invited to American Family Dinners At 6:47 AM on November 3rd [----] Sergeant Friedrich Hartmann arrived at Camp Aliceville Alabama as a German prisoner of war. Captured at Kasserine Pass after his Panzer IV was destroyed he expected harsh treatment starvation rations and isolation. What he got instead was an invitation that would change his life forever. This is the true story of a German tank commander who destroyed American tanks in North Africa only to find himself working on an Alabama farm owned by Thomas Bradford - a man whose son was fighting against Germany"
YouTube Link 2026-01-24T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"German POWs in California Were Taken to the Ocean - What Happened Next Shocked Them July 12th [----]. Unteroffizier Klaus Becker stood in a U.S. Army truck heading west from Camp Cooke California certain the Americans were taking him somewhere to be executed. He could smell salt air. He had never seen the Pacific Ocean. The guards hadn't explained where they were going. What Becker didn't know was that within two hours everything he believed about his captors would change forever. This is the true story of how German POWs in California were treated during World War IIand why thousands of them"
YouTube Link 2026-01-16T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Germans Laughed At The American Cargo Ship Carrier - It Became The Deadliest U-Boat Hunter March 17th [----]. Mid-Atlantic. A German U-boat commander laughs through his periscope at the sight: a stubby cargo ship with a wooden flight deck pretending to be an aircraft carrier. "Americans are so desperate" he tells his crew. What he didn't know was that these converted merchant shipsthe cheapest most expendable vessels in the US Navywould end U-boat supremacy in the Atlantic within [--] months. This is the story of the CVE escort carriers: hastily-built "baby flattops" constructed in [--] days from"
YouTube Link 2025-11-15T18:30Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"German POWs in Texas Thought the Desert Would Kill Them - Got AC Cabins and Steak Dinners In June [----] Corporal Rudolf Thill stepped off a train in Hearne Texas expecting death in the desert. What he found instead would haunt him for the rest of his life. Camp Hearne wasn't a prison camp. It was something else entirely. Hot showers. Real meat. White bread. Ice cream once a week. German prisoners from Rommel's Afrika Korps ate better than American civilians rationing food at home. They built elaborate fountains with running water. Miniature castles with moats. They attended university classes."
YouTube Link 2026-01-10T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Italian POWs in Florida Had It So Good They Begged to Stay After War At 2:47 PM on September 23rd [----] Private Angelo Martinelli stood in the processing line at Camp Blanding Florida weighing just [---] pounds after months of starvation in North Africa. He expected a prison camphard labor barbed wire maybe slow death from hunger. Instead he walked into a mess hall and found roasted chicken mashed potatoes fresh bread and apple pie. Just a regular Thursday dinner. What happened next changed his life forever. This is the untold story of [-----] Italian prisoners of war who were sent to camps across"
YouTube Link 2026-01-13T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Japanese Admiral Yamamoto Warned About Attacking Pearl Harbor Then America Built [--] Essex Carriers Before Pearl Harbor Admiral Isoroku YamamotoJapans most brilliant and cautious strategisttried to stop what he knew would be a fatal mistake. He warned his superiors that attacking the United States would not lead to victory but to a war Japan could never win. He understood Americas hidden strengthits vast factories its unstoppable workforce its unmatched ability to rebuild faster than anyone on Earth. When Japan struck on December 7th [----] that warning became a chilling prophecy. In the months"
YouTube Link 2025-11-07T01:30Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Nazi POWs in Texas Were Fed Steak and Ice Cream - They Thought it Was a Trick June 8th [----]. A German POW stands in a Texas mess hall staring at more food than he's seen in four years of war. Roast beef. Real coffee. Butter. And ice cream. His first thought "They're trying to poison us." Heinrich Kramer had survived four years in the Wehrmacht eating starvation rations. He'd watched his daily bread shrink from [---] grams to [---] grams. He'd gone days without hot food in Tunisia before his Panzer unit ran out of fuel and he was captured. Now he's at Camp Hearne Texasa place the locals would call"
YouTube Link 2025-12-18T23:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"German POWs in California Were Taken to See the Redwoods - The Massive Trees Left Them Stunned At 2:11 in the afternoon on June 18th [----] Oberfeldwebel Klaus Richter stood in the bed of a Dodge truck rolling north through Humboldt County California watching trees appear through the coastal fog that made no sense to him. Twenty-nine years old captured in Tunisia two years earlier three years in the Afrika Korps before that. He had seen the deserts of North Africa the mountains of Sicily the farmland of central California where he had spent the past eighteen months picking oranges and walnuts."
YouTube Link 2026-01-08T23:00Z [----] followers, 11.9K engagements
""How One American Stopped [----] Japanese for [--] Hours Until He Ran Out of Bullets" October 24-25 [----]. Guadalcanal. Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone and [--] Marines stood between [----] Japanese soldiers and Henderson Field the most critical airstrip in the Pacific. For six straight hours through the night Basilone manned two machine guns as wave after wave of Japanese infantry attacked his position. When his guns overheated he changed the barrels with his bare hands the metal so hot it burned his skin off. When he ran out of ammunition he strapped [--] pounds of belts across his body and fought"
YouTube Link 2025-12-01T23:15Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Japanese POWs Arrived In America - What They Found Shocked Them More Than The War On December 8th [----] a young Japanese submarine officer washed ashore in Hawaii expecting to be tortured and executed. Instead American soldiers gave him a blanket. What happened next would shock him more than anything he experienced in combat. Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki became Prisoner of War #1 after his midget submarine failed during the Pearl Harbor attack. He had been trained his entire life that surrender meant disgrace worse than death. His officers told him Americans would brutalize any Japanese soldier they"
YouTube Link 2025-11-26T22:00Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"German POWs in Oklahoma Refused to Leave America After the War Ended When German POW Heinrich Goedecke stood at the fence of Fort Reno camp on May 8th [----] watching American guards celebrate Germany's surrender he knew he was going home. Back to a country reduced to rubble. Back to a family eating potato peels and burning furniture to stay warm. Back to a Soviet-occupied zone where men were being shipped to labor camps in Siberia. For the past [--] months Heinrich had worked on Oklahoma farms. Three meals a day. Clean bed. [--] cents a day in wages. The farmer's wife served him fried chicken at"
YouTube Link 2025-12-24T22:00Z [----] followers, 25.8K engagements
"Nazi POWs in Colorado Were Taken to Aspen Mountain - They Couldn't Believe This Was Prison At 2:47 PM on June 23rd [----] German Unteroffizier Klaus Becker stepped off a truck outside Leadville Colorado and stared at the Rocky Mountains thinking he was being set up for a propaganda photograph. He'd been a prisoner of war for two months captured in Tunisia expecting slave labor or worse. Instead the Americans handed him a work assignment cutting timber at [-----] feet with a view that stretched sixty miles. The breakfast that next morning broke his brain: scrambled eggs bacon toast with real"
YouTube Link 2025-12-16T23:15Z [----] followers, 52.6K engagements
"German Generals Laughed At US Logistics - Then The Red Ball Express Arrived August 23rd [----]. German generals laughed at American logistics. "They are playing at war with delivery boys" von Rundstedt said dismissing the truck convoys as "circus tricks." The Americans were using trucksnot railways not horse-drawn wagons like professional armiesjust thousands of commercial vehicles driven by what German intelligence called "largely Negro motor transport units." Within three months those "delivery boys" were moving more supplies in one day than the entire German logistics system could move in a"
YouTube Link 2025-11-17T00:00Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Italian POWs in Florida Refused to Leave After the War Ended - What They Found Changed Everything This story proves that sometimes losing a war means winning a life. Sometimes being captured means being freed. Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you turns out to be the best thing. At 2:47 PM on September 17th [----] Italian POW Antonio Caruso stood in a processing line at Camp Blanding Florida watching American soldiers hand out oranges like newspapers. Three per man. Take as many as you want. More in the mess hall. Caruso had surrendered in Sicily after three years fighting in North"
YouTube Link 2025-12-17T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Italian POWs Described American POW Camps as Paradise on Earth From Enemy Prisoner to American Citizen: The Incredible True Story of Giuseppe Mariani On September 8th [----] Italian POW Giuseppe Mariani stood in a Seattle barracks stunned by a plate piled with roast beef and mashed potatoes. Just months earlier he'd been surviving on grass in a British prison camp in North Africa weighing barely [---] pounds. This is the extraordinary true story of how America's humane treatment of Italian prisoners during World War II transformed enemies into citizens and changed lives forever. What You'll"
YouTube Link 2026-01-02T00:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"German POWs Arrived in America - What They Found Shocked Them More Than The War May 12th [----]. A Liberty ship carrying [---] German prisoners to America. "The Americans can't even feed their own people" one prisoner said repeating Nazi propaganda. "We'll be lucky to get bread and water." Three weeks later that same prisoner wrote home describing meals so abundant his family thought he'd gone insane. German censors destroyed the letter assuming it was American propaganda. What the German POWs found in America shattered everything they'd been told about American weakness and poverty. They"
YouTube Link 2025-11-16T12:30Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"How American General Patton Moved [------] Troops in [--] Hours - Germans Couldn't Believe It In December [----] German forces launched a massive surprise attack through the Ardennes Forest surrounding American troops in Bastogne. General George Patton made an impossible promise: move his entire Third Army of [------] troops [---] miles through winter pivot [--] degrees and attack in [--] hours. Military experts said it couldn't be done. Patton had secretly prepared contingency plans weeks earlier. On December 22nd exactly when he promised his attack began. The 4th Armored Division fought through snow and"
YouTube Link 2025-11-23T17:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"German POWs in Texas Couldn't Believe They Could Go to the Movies In June [----] Unteroffizier Klaus Hartmann arrived at Camp Hearne Texas expecting harsh prison conditions. What he found instead shocked him: swimming pools movie theaters ice cream three times a week and treatment better than he'd received as a soldier in the German army. This is the incredible true story of German prisoners of war in Texas during World War II who attended Hollywood films alongside American civilians ate better food than people back home in Germany played organized soccer and some even fell in love with local"
YouTube Link 2025-12-15T00:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Nazi POWs Could Eat at American Diners But Black Soldiers Couldn't - The Irony Broke Them August 3rd [----]. Sergeant Lloyd Brown stood outside a lunch counter in Kansas watching five German prisoners of war sit down and order food. Brown was wearing a U.S. Army uniform. His job was to guard these enemy soldiers. But when he tried to enter the same diner he was refused service. The reason He was Black. This wasn't an isolated incident. Across America during World War II approximately [------] German POWs were held in camps mostly in the South. Due to the Geneva Convention they were treated"
YouTube Link 2025-12-10T23:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Italian POWs Begged to Stay in America After the War Ended On the morning of September 12th [----] Private Bruno Piva stood in the cargo hold of a Liberty ship watching America emerge from the fog. He was a prisoner of war. A baker from Genoa who had never fired his rifle at anyone. The Americans were taking him to a place called Arkansas. What happened next changed everything. [-----] Italian POWs were brought to camps across [--] American states. They expected hatred. They got fresh milk mattresses with springs and [----] calories a day. They got paid. They played bocce. They watched opera"
YouTube Link 2026-01-04T23:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The Plane That Changed Naval Warfare Forever-Douglas SBD Dauntless When the Pacific was burning and defeat felt certain one aircraft changed everything. The Douglas SBD Dauntless wasnt the most modern plane in the sky but it didnt need to be. It was reliable tough and flown by men who refused to lose. With dive angles so steep they defied reason Dauntless pilots dove through tracer fire and flak clouds to strike the heart of the Japanese fleet. At Midway they sank four carriers in a single dayturning what shouldve been a crushing defeat into the most important American victory of the war."
YouTube Link 2025-11-08T23:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Italian POWs in New York Couldn't Believe They Were Being Paid to Work In May [----] Private Marco Benedetti was captured in Tunisia expecting the worststarvation abuse maybe execution. Instead he was shipped to America and found himself eating roast beef sandwiches earning [--] cents a day and living better than he ever had as a free man in Italy. This is the forgotten story of [-----] Italian prisoners of war who were sent to camps across the United States during World War II. What they found there shocked them: three meals a day with real meat clean barracks with electricity medical care and"
YouTube Link 2025-12-12T23:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"When Germans Stole An American B-17 And Realized They'd Already Lost September 12th [----]. Rechlin Germany. When the Luftwaffe captured a damaged American B-17 bomber German engineers thought they'd found the key to defeating it. They disassembled it tested it studied every component. What they discovered terrified them. The "wasteful" over-engineering wasn't a flawit was a production philosophy Germany couldn't match. Every part was designed for mass production. Every system had redundant backups. The Americans weren't building the perfect bomberthey were building good bombers in massive"
YouTube Link 2025-11-15T00:00Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"German POWs Thought They Were Staying at the Hilton Hotel June [----]. Unteroffizier Werner Mller was captured by American forces near Anzio Italy. Everything he'd been told said he was heading to torture starvation and death. His own officers had warned him: surrender to the Americans and you won't survive. Then the plane landed in America. What Mller discovered in that Nebraska prison camp would shatter everything the Third Reich had taught him. The food was better than what German soldiers ate. The beds had actual pillows. American families watched soccer matches through the fence. And a"
YouTube Link 2026-01-15T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"German POWs in Iowa Couldn't Believe American Farmers Treated Them Like This August [----]. Franz Schneider went from commanding troops at Normandy to holding a pitchfork in rural Iowa. His new boss A farmer whose son was overseas shooting at Germans just like him. What happened next defied everything both men expected. This is the untold story of Camp Algonawhere [-----] German POWs were sent to America's heartland to save the harvest. Where enemies shared lunch in Iowa barns. Where a farmer's wife sent care packages to Munich while her son fought through France. Where hatred slowly gave way to"
YouTube Link 2025-12-30T00:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Nazi POWs in Texas Were Shown American Grocery Stores - What They Saw Left Them Speechless When Heinrich Vogel stepped into a small Texas grocery store in [----] he couldn't believe his eyes. After years of Nazi propaganda claiming America was starving and collapsing this German officer found shelves overflowing with foodmore than he'd seen in any German store since before the war. This is the untold story of German POWs held in Texas during WWII who lived better as prisoners than they did as soldiers. They ate [----] calories a day. They gained weight. They had hot showers clean barracks and"
YouTube Link 2025-12-21T23:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"What Made America Unstoppable in WW2 December 8th [----]. Henry Kaiser stood in his California shipyard holding a contract every expert said was impossible. Build [--] cargo ships in [--] days each. Traditional shipyards needed [---] days per ship. His competitors laughed. The Navy rejected his proposal three times. Kaiser had never built a ship in his life. But what the Axis powers didn't know was that they had just declared war on a country whose industrial capacity operated by mathematics they couldn't comprehend. This is the story of how one man with unconventional methods proved that American"
YouTube Link 2025-12-06T03:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"How One American Sergeant's 'Stupid' Bazooka Shot Destroyed Nazi Germany's Heaviest Tank The battlefield was quiet for a moment wrapped in fog and fear. Then came the sound deep mechanical unearthly. Out of the mist rolled one of Nazi Germanys heaviest tanks a monstrous slab of steel that made the ground shake beneath its tracks. Its armor was impenetrable its gun capable of tearing through anything the Americans had. Every soldier in the area knew that if this thing made it through dozens maybe hundreds of lives would be lost. But one man didnt run. One American sergeant armed with nothing"
YouTube Link 2025-11-11T22:00Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"American Pilot Rammed A Japanese Bomber And Survived - Japan Called It Suicide It Was Mathematics April 29th [----]. Burma. Second Lieutenant Owen Baggett hung helpless in his parachute harness watching a Japanese Ki-43 Oscar fighter circle closer. His B-24 Liberator lay scattered across the jungle below. Nine crew members descended in parachutes around him. Then the Japanese pilot did something that violated every rule of warfarehe began systematically shooting the parachuting airmen. When the Oscar closed to thirty feet Baggett could see the pilot's face through the canopy. Gun ports aligned"
YouTube Link 2025-11-16T00:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"How German POWs Got Drunk on New Year's Eve December 31st [----]. Camp Alva Oklahoma. While their country burned thousands of miles away [--] German prisoners of war were about to pull off something extraordinary: getting completely drunk right under the noses of their American guards. This is the true story of Unteroffizier Klaus Becker Gefreiter Hans Muller and a makeshift distillery hidden beneath the floorboards of Barracks [--]. For [--] weeks they turned potato peelings stolen sugar and scavenged copper pipe into 140-proof alcohol. They engineered a precision still that would've impressed"
YouTube Link 2025-12-28T23:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"How One German Ace Destroyed [--] Allied Planes in [--] Hours - Britain Refused to Believe It On September 1st [----] 22-year-old Hans-Joachim Marseille the Luftwaffes Star of Africa pulled off one of the wildest days any fighter pilot ever recorded. Known as a ridiculously skilled but chaotic playboy who partied too much he still walked into the skies over North Africa and claimed [--] Allied fighters in just three sorties. The craziest part Eight of those kills came in a span of only ten minutes. Marseilles shooting was freakishly precise: roughly [--] rounds per plane always walking his fire from"
YouTube Link 2025-11-22T15:30Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"How One American B-17 Pilot Survived the 'Impossible' Flew [---] Miles with [--] Engines Down December 20th [----]. Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown's B-17 was destroyed over Germany. Three engines gone. Tail section shredded. Nine of ten crew wounded. One dead. Over [----] bullet holes.German ace Franz Stigler intercepted them at [----] feet. He had [--] kills and needed just three more for the Knight's Cross Germany's highest honor. Brown's crippled bomber was an easy kill.Stigler flew close enough to see inside the torn fuselage. Wounded men. Blood on the walls. The tail gunner's compartment was gone.He"
YouTube Link 2025-11-18T05:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Italian POWs in Wisconsin Were Shocked When Farmers' Daughters Started Doing This During World War II over [-----] Italian prisoners of war were sent to work on Wisconsin farms. What happened next shocked everyoneespecially the prisoners themselves. In this video we follow the true story of Private Angelo Rossi a 23-year-old Italian soldier captured in Tunisia and sent to Fort McCoy Wisconsin in [----]. Expecting harsh treatment as an enemy prisoner Angelo instead found himself working on Robert Schneider's 280-acre farm where something completely unexpected began to unfold. This is the story of"
YouTube Link 2025-12-24T02:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The Story of One Mechanic Who Turned Scrap Metal Into a Working Tank Behind Enemy Lines When his unit was surrounded deep behind enemy lines with three destroyed tanks and no hope of rescue one resourceful mechanic made an impossible decision: build a working tank from the wreckage. What followed was one of the most remarkable feats of improvisation in military historya Frankenstein machine cobbled together from spare parts salvaged components and sheer determination. This is the true story of survival ingenuity and the desperate engineering that turned scrap metal into a lifeline.🎯 In this"
YouTube Link 2025-11-13T20:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"German POWs in Louisiana Were Shocked by How Americans Treated Them On June 18th [----] Unteroffizier Klaus Hartmann stood on a Liberty ship approaching Louisiana expecting the brutal treatment Nazi propaganda had promised. Instead he found three full meals a day paid work and treatment that exceeded Geneva Convention standards. What he discovered in American POW camps would contradict everything he'd been told about his captors. This is the untold story of [-----] German prisoners of war who worked Louisiana's cotton fields sugarcane plantations and sawmills during World War II. Men who arrived"
YouTube Link 2026-01-13T00:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Japanese Officers Toured American Factories Before Pearl Harbor - What They Saw Terrified Them September [----]. Ford River Rouge Complex Dearborn Michigan. Commander Yamamoto Isoroku stood at the observation platform overlooking the largest industrial facility on Earth and what he saw made his stomach tighten. Below him molten iron flowed like water. Freight cars moved in endless procession. Assembly lines stretched beyond sight. The translator was explaining production numbers: [----] vehicles per day but Yamamoto had stopped listening. He was doing mathematics in his head terrible mathematics."
YouTube Link 2025-11-14T20:15Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"German POWs Were Shocked When They Visited New York City Freely In August [----] Oberleutnant Ernst Bachmann arrived in America as a prisoner of war expecting brutal treatment. Instead he discovered something that would haunt him for the rest of his life: German POWs in the United States ate better than American civilians dealing with rationing worked in Manhattan hospitals with minimal supervision and lived in conditions that felt more like refuge than imprisonment. This is the story of how German prisoners of war experienced America during World War IIeating Thanksgiving turkey while their"
YouTube Link 2026-01-19T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Nazi POWs Dug a 178-Foot Tunnel Out of an Arizona Prison - What Happened Next Was Pathetic On December 23rd [----] [--] German POWs executed a flawless escape from Camp Papago Park in Arizona. They had spent three months digging a 178-foot tunnel with stolen kitchen knives and tin cans. Their plan Hike to the Colorado River build rafts float to Mexico and eventually return to Germany to keep fighting. These weren't ordinary soldiers. They were U-boat commanders Luftwaffe pilots and Afrika Korps officersGermany's elite. Led by Kapitnleutnant Jrgen Wattenberg a submarine ace who had escaped POW"
YouTube Link 2025-12-25T04:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""How One American Pilot Escaped a Nazi POW Camp [--] Times - They Couldnt Stop Him" At 2:47 PM on March 24th [----] Flight Lieutenant Bill Ash crash-landed his crippled Spitfire in a French farmer's field. German soldiers captured him within minutes. They had no idea what they'd just caught. Bill Ash was a 24-year-old Texan who gave up his American citizenship to fight Nazis before the U.S. even entered the war. He wasn't the best fighter pilothe only shot down one enemy plane in his entire career. But what he lacked in aerial kills he made up for in sheer determination on the ground. Over the"
YouTube Link 2025-11-29T19:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"How One American Mechanic's 'Stupid' Rubber Trick Made Planes Invincible In November [----] Japanese ace Saburo Sakai fired directly into an American Wildcat's fuel tank and waited for the explosion. Nothing happened. The plane just kept flying and Sakai couldn't understand why. What he didn't know was that American engineers had developed a simple but revolutionary solution to one of aviation's deadliest problems. They lined fuel tanks with a special rubber compound that swelled when it contacted fuel automatically sealing bullet holes within seconds. Before self-sealing fuel tanks 40% of RAF"
YouTube Link 2025-11-17T16:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"German POWs in Mississippi Refused to Leave Because They Were Treated Like Guests In June [----] German POW Hans Weber arrived at Camp Clinton in Mississippi expecting starvation and brutal treatment. Instead he was served turkey dinners given access to libraries and movie theaters and paid [--] cents a day to pick cotton on local farms. By the time the war ended Weber didn't want to leaveand eventually emigrated to America permanently. This is the forgotten story of how [-----] German prisoners of war lived in Mississippi during WWII treated better than many poor Mississippiansand certainly better"
YouTube Link 2026-01-25T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"How One American Sergeant's 'Crazy' Device Saved [---] Shermans - Germans Couldn't Stop Them How One Sergeant's Steel Tusks Saved [---] Sherman Tanks in Normandy July 14th [----]. Sergeant Curtis Culin welded four crude steel tusks to a Sherman tank using scrap from German roadblocks. Officers called it a "farm tool." General Bradley watched it punch through a Normandy hedgerow in [--] secondssomething that normally took [--] minutes and cost lives. After D-Day American tanks were trapped in Normandy's bocage country. When Shermans crossed the dense hedgerows they exposed their belly armor to German"
YouTube Link 2025-11-23T21:30Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"German POWs in Texas Were Treated So Well Americans Called It 'The Fritz Ritz In May [----] German soldier Hans Weber stepped off a train in Texas expecting torture and starvation. What happened instead would shock him for the rest of his life. Camp Hearne held over [----] German POWs who ate better than American civilians attended university courses from Baylor performed operas in custom-built theaters and gained so much weight that locals sarcastically called it "The Fritz Ritz." While German families back home survived on [----] calories a day these prisoners ate [----] calories dailythe same"
YouTube Link 2026-01-27T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Italian POWs in Washington Picked Apples and Never Wanted to Go Home In September [----] thousands of Italian prisoners of war arrived at camps across Washington State expecting the worst. What they found instead changed their lives forever. Private Giuseppe Benedetti had spent two years starving in the North African desert fighting a war he never believed in. When he surrendered to American forces in Tunisia he thought his life was over. Instead he was shipped to Fort Lewis Washington where he discovered something he never expected: abundance. The Italian POWs were put to work picking apples"
YouTube Link 2026-01-26T23:00Z [----] followers, 18.1K engagements
"German POWs in Mississippi Refused to Leave Because They Were Treated Like Guests In June [----] German POW Hans Weber arrived at Camp Clinton in Mississippi expecting starvation and brutal treatment. Instead he was served turkey dinners given access to libraries and movie theaters and paid [--] cents a day to pick cotton on local farms. By the time the war ended Weber didn't want to leaveand eventually emigrated to America permanently. This is the forgotten story of how [-----] German prisoners of war lived in Mississippi during WWII treated better than many poor Mississippiansand certainly better"
YouTube Link 2026-01-25T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"German POWs in Alabama Were Invited to American Family Dinners At 6:47 AM on November 3rd [----] Sergeant Friedrich Hartmann arrived at Camp Aliceville Alabama as a German prisoner of war. Captured at Kasserine Pass after his Panzer IV was destroyed he expected harsh treatment starvation rations and isolation. What he got instead was an invitation that would change his life forever. This is the true story of a German tank commander who destroyed American tanks in North Africa only to find himself working on an Alabama farm owned by Thomas Bradford - a man whose son was fighting against Germany"
YouTube Link 2026-01-24T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"German POWs in Ohio Refused to Return to Germany After the War German POW Refused to Go Home After WWII - Here's Why At 2:47 PM on May 8th [----] Unteroffizier Lukas Reinhardt stood behind barbed wire at Camp Perry Ohio watching Americans celebrate Victory in Europe Day. The war was over. Germany had surrendered. Within weeks he'd be shipped back across the Atlantic. But Reinhardt told his bunkmate that night he'd rather stay in Ohio than return to Germany. The sergeant processing repatriation paperwork thought he was joking. He wasn't. What happened next reveals one of the most fascinating"
YouTube Link 2026-01-23T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"German POWs in Arkansas Said Prison in America Felt Illegal In June [----] Edwin Pelz stepped off a train in Arkansas expecting the worst. As a German POW captured in North Africa he'd been warned about American brutalityforced labor starvation beatings. What he found instead changed everything he thought he knew about his enemies. Real coffee for breakfast. Hot showers. University courses. Farmers who shared their lunch. Guards who treated him like a human being. For two and a half years Pelz worked in Arkansas cotton fields and timber operations earning [--] cents a day and eating food better"
YouTube Link 2026-01-22T23:00Z [----] followers, 23.3K engagements
"German POWs in Oregon Thought Theyd Been Sent to Heaven On September 12th [----] Sergeant Josef Weber stepped off a train in Oregon expecting brutality. He was a German prisoner of war captured in Tunisia shipped across the Atlantic on a Liberty Ship. For six weeks he'd been certain the Allies would execute him. Instead he got roast beef. Three meals a day. Clean mattresses. Guards who didn't shout. And apple pie from a farmer who spoke German and offered him a job after the war. Weber had grown up under Nazi propaganda that told him America was weak decadent destroyed by its own freedoms. But"
YouTube Link 2026-01-21T23:00Z [----] followers, 125.3K engagements
"German POWs in Pennsylvania Were Allowed to Walk Into Town Alone On June 12th [----] a German POW named Martin Schneider arrived at Camp Reynolds in Pennsylvania weighing [---] pounds after months of starvation rations. What happened next changed his life forever. The treatment he received as a prisoner of war was so generous that when he was finally released in [----] he weighed [---] pounds. He said he could no longer see his eyes when he smiled. But the abundance of food was just the beginning. German POWs in Pennsylvania were given heated barracks with real mattresses paid wages allowed to attend"
YouTube Link 2026-01-20T23:00Z [----] followers, 64.3K engagements
"German POWs Were Shocked When They Visited New York City Freely In August [----] Oberleutnant Ernst Bachmann arrived in America as a prisoner of war expecting brutal treatment. Instead he discovered something that would haunt him for the rest of his life: German POWs in the United States ate better than American civilians dealing with rationing worked in Manhattan hospitals with minimal supervision and lived in conditions that felt more like refuge than imprisonment. This is the story of how German prisoners of war experienced America during World War IIeating Thanksgiving turkey while their"
YouTube Link 2026-01-19T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"German POWs in Oklahoma Couldn't Believe American Hygiene Standards When Feldwebel Hans Weber stepped off a train at Fort Reno Oklahoma in May [----] he expected brutality. Nazi propaganda had told him Americans were weak starving and collapsing. What he found instead shattered everything he believed about the world. Hot showers. Clean barracks. Fried chicken and apple pie. Indoor plumbing with porcelain toilets. Ice cream on Saturdays. German prisoners of war in Oklahoma were eating better than they had in the Wehrmacht - and better than civilians back in Germany. This is the true story of how"
YouTube Link 2026-01-18T23:00Z [----] followers, 12.1K engagements
"German POWs in Kansas Couldn't Believe American Food Portions At 2:47 PM on June 12th [----] Unteroffizier Werner Schafer stood in a processing line at Camp Concordia Kansas staring at a metal tray that made no sense. The American sergeant had just handed him more food than he'd seen in two years of war. A massive slab of beef. Mountains of mashed potatoes. Fresh bread with real butter. Coffee that actually smelled like coffee. And apple pie. Schafer weighed [---] pounds. He asked if the tray was meant for multiple men. The sergeant laughed and said it was just lunch. One meal. What Schafer"
YouTube Link 2026-01-17T23:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"German POWs in California Were Taken to the Ocean - What Happened Next Shocked Them July 12th [----]. Unteroffizier Klaus Becker stood in a U.S. Army truck heading west from Camp Cooke California certain the Americans were taking him somewhere to be executed. He could smell salt air. He had never seen the Pacific Ocean. The guards hadn't explained where they were going. What Becker didn't know was that within two hours everything he believed about his captors would change forever. This is the true story of how German POWs in California were treated during World War IIand why thousands of them"
YouTube Link 2026-01-16T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"German POWs Thought They Were Staying at the Hilton Hotel June [----]. Unteroffizier Werner Mller was captured by American forces near Anzio Italy. Everything he'd been told said he was heading to torture starvation and death. His own officers had warned him: surrender to the Americans and you won't survive. Then the plane landed in America. What Mller discovered in that Nebraska prison camp would shatter everything the Third Reich had taught him. The food was better than what German soldiers ate. The beds had actual pillows. American families watched soccer matches through the fence. And a"
YouTube Link 2026-01-15T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"German POWs in Alabama Were Paid MORE Than Local Workers - Americans Couldn't Believe It In [----] farmer Robert Hayes watched enemy soldiers arrive at his Alabama farm to pick his cotton. The U.S. government charged him [--] cents per hour for their labor. His regular crew He paid them [--] cents per day. German prisoners of war earned [--] cents daily - the same as American soldiers. Meanwhile local farmworkers especially Black laborers in the South made a fraction of that amount doing identical work. The Geneva Convention required equal treatment for POWs but nobody had thought about what that"
YouTube Link 2026-01-14T23:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Italian POWs in Florida Had It So Good They Begged to Stay After War At 2:47 PM on September 23rd [----] Private Angelo Martinelli stood in the processing line at Camp Blanding Florida weighing just [---] pounds after months of starvation in North Africa. He expected a prison camphard labor barbed wire maybe slow death from hunger. Instead he walked into a mess hall and found roasted chicken mashed potatoes fresh bread and apple pie. Just a regular Thursday dinner. What happened next changed his life forever. This is the untold story of [-----] Italian prisoners of war who were sent to camps across"
YouTube Link 2026-01-13T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"German POWs in Louisiana Were Shocked by How Americans Treated Them On June 18th [----] Unteroffizier Klaus Hartmann stood on a Liberty ship approaching Louisiana expecting the brutal treatment Nazi propaganda had promised. Instead he found three full meals a day paid work and treatment that exceeded Geneva Convention standards. What he discovered in American POW camps would contradict everything he'd been told about his captors. This is the untold story of [-----] German prisoners of war who worked Louisiana's cotton fields sugarcane plantations and sawmills during World War II. Men who arrived"
YouTube Link 2026-01-13T00:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"German POWs in Arizona Refused to Believe America Was This Beautiful December 23rd [----]. Gnter Grwe stood in a prison camp canteen staring at ice cream and Coca-Colatwo things he hadn't seen in three years. His hands were shaking. Not from fear. From the sudden realization that everything the Reich had told him about America was a lie. Camp Papago Park near Phoenix Arizona housed [----] German prisoners mostly U-boat sailors. What happened there defied everything they'd been taught about the enemy. The food was better than what German civilians ate. The treatment followed rules instead of"
YouTube Link 2026-01-11T23:00Z [----] followers, 16.5K engagements
"German POWs in Texas Thought the Desert Would Kill Them - Got AC Cabins and Steak Dinners In June [----] Corporal Rudolf Thill stepped off a train in Hearne Texas expecting death in the desert. What he found instead would haunt him for the rest of his life. Camp Hearne wasn't a prison camp. It was something else entirely. Hot showers. Real meat. White bread. Ice cream once a week. German prisoners from Rommel's Afrika Korps ate better than American civilians rationing food at home. They built elaborate fountains with running water. Miniature castles with moats. They attended university classes."
YouTube Link 2026-01-10T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Italian POWs in California Were Sent to Napa Valley Vineyards Americans Let Them Make Wine At 7:15 AM on October 12th [----] Italian prisoner of war Antonio Bellini stood alone in a Napa Valley vineyard holding pruning shears while his American guard drove away. No fence. No supervision. Just trust. What happened over the next two years would change California wine forever. [-----] Italian POWs arrived in America during WWII. Many were sent to California vineyards during a desperate labor shortage. The vineyard owners expected cheap labor. What they got was something completely different. These"
YouTube Link 2026-01-09T23:00Z [----] followers, 12.8K engagements
"German POWs in California Were Taken to See the Redwoods - The Massive Trees Left Them Stunned At 2:11 in the afternoon on June 18th [----] Oberfeldwebel Klaus Richter stood in the bed of a Dodge truck rolling north through Humboldt County California watching trees appear through the coastal fog that made no sense to him. Twenty-nine years old captured in Tunisia two years earlier three years in the Afrika Korps before that. He had seen the deserts of North Africa the mountains of Sicily the farmland of central California where he had spent the past eighteen months picking oranges and walnuts."
YouTube Link 2026-01-08T23:00Z [----] followers, 11.9K engagements
"German POWs in Florida Were Taken to the Beach - They Were Shocked Americans Just Let Them Swim Nazi POWs in Florida Were Taken to the Beach - They Were Shocked Americans Just Let Them Swim In June [----] German prisoner Klaus Weber stood in the back of an American Army truck trying to understand what was happening. Captured in Tunisia shipped across the Atlantic expecting brutal prison conditionsinstead he was told he was going swimming. Swimming. In the middle of a war. As a prisoner. This is the forgotten story of how America treated [-----] German POWs held in Florida during World War II."
YouTube Link 2026-01-07T23:00Z [----] followers, 302.8K engagements
"Japanese POWs Held in Pearl Harbor Described it As HEAVEN December 8th [----]. Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki washes up on an Oahu beach as America's first Japanese POW. He's been trained his entire life that capture means torture execution and ultimate dishonor. He begs his captors to shoot him. They refuse. What happens next breaks everything he's been taught about Americans. Instead of torture chambers he finds clean beds with white linen sheets. Instead of starvation rations he gets eggs bacon coffee and fruitthree times a day. Instead of execution he gets English classes. Instead of brutal labor he"
YouTube Link 2026-01-06T23:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Italian POWs Held in America Called It Almost PARADISE Italian POWs in America: From Starvation to Paradise The shocking true story of [-----] Italian prisoners of war who arrived in America expecting punishment and found abundance beyond imagination. After surviving starvation rations in North Africa and brutal treatment under French-Moroccan guards captured Italian soldier Virgilio Razzo stepped into an American POW camp in Louisiana and couldn't believe what he saw: eggs bacon steak oranges real coffee hot showers clean barracks and a pack of cigarettes waiting at his table. Food he hadn't"
YouTube Link 2026-01-06T00:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Italian POWs Begged to Stay in America After the War Ended On the morning of September 12th [----] Private Bruno Piva stood in the cargo hold of a Liberty ship watching America emerge from the fog. He was a prisoner of war. A baker from Genoa who had never fired his rifle at anyone. The Americans were taking him to a place called Arkansas. What happened next changed everything. [-----] Italian POWs were brought to camps across [--] American states. They expected hatred. They got fresh milk mattresses with springs and [----] calories a day. They got paid. They played bocce. They watched opera"
YouTube Link 2026-01-04T23:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"German POWs Held in Minnesota Described It as HEAVEN In June [----] German tank gunner Hans Mller was captured after D-Day and shipped to America as a prisoner of war. Starving terrified and expecting the worst he arrived at a POW camp in Minnesota. What happened next shocked himand changed his life forever. Instead of punishment Mller found three hot meals a day. Instead of hard labor camps he got paid work on local farms. Instead of cruelty he received treatment that exceeded even what he'd experienced in his own military. American POW camps fed German prisoners roast beef and apple pie while"
YouTube Link 2026-01-03T23:00Z [----] followers, 335.9K engagements
"They're Not What We Expected American Women React to German POWs in the USA At 7:32 on the morning of June 14th [----] Nancy Bond watched a military truck carrying twelve German prisoners of war arrive at her family's apple orchard in Winchester Virginia. She was [--] years old engaged to an American soldier fighting overseas and everything she knew about Germans came from wartime propaganda. Her father warned her to stay inside. Her mother locked the silverware. The sheriff said these men were dangerous. What Nancy didn't know was that within [--] months the man her community called the enemy"
YouTube Link 2026-01-03T00:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Italian POWs Described American POW Camps as Paradise on Earth From Enemy Prisoner to American Citizen: The Incredible True Story of Giuseppe Mariani On September 8th [----] Italian POW Giuseppe Mariani stood in a Seattle barracks stunned by a plate piled with roast beef and mashed potatoes. Just months earlier he'd been surviving on grass in a British prison camp in North Africa weighing barely [---] pounds. This is the extraordinary true story of how America's humane treatment of Italian prisoners during World War II transformed enemies into citizens and changed lives forever. What You'll"
YouTube Link 2026-01-02T00:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"German Prisoners Couldn't Believe Their Eyes When They Saw America's Factories In June [----] Oberleutnant Franz Hoffman arrived in New York as a prisoner of war. What he witnessed over the next [--] months would shatter everything the Wehrmacht had told him about America. This is the true story of a decorated German officer who saw American industrial might firsthandand understood that Germany never stood a chance. From the skyline of New York to the wheat fields of Oklahoma from aircraft factories running 24-hour shifts to salvage yards throwing away perfectly good equipment Hoffman documented"
YouTube Link 2025-12-31T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"German POWs in Iowa Couldn't Believe American Farmers Treated Them Like This August [----]. Franz Schneider went from commanding troops at Normandy to holding a pitchfork in rural Iowa. His new boss A farmer whose son was overseas shooting at Germans just like him. What happened next defied everything both men expected. This is the untold story of Camp Algonawhere [-----] German POWs were sent to America's heartland to save the harvest. Where enemies shared lunch in Iowa barns. Where a farmer's wife sent care packages to Munich while her son fought through France. Where hatred slowly gave way to"
YouTube Link 2025-12-30T00:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"How German POWs Got Drunk on New Year's Eve December 31st [----]. Camp Alva Oklahoma. While their country burned thousands of miles away [--] German prisoners of war were about to pull off something extraordinary: getting completely drunk right under the noses of their American guards. This is the true story of Unteroffizier Klaus Becker Gefreiter Hans Muller and a makeshift distillery hidden beneath the floorboards of Barracks [--]. For [--] weeks they turned potato peelings stolen sugar and scavenged copper pipe into 140-proof alcohol. They engineered a precision still that would've impressed"
YouTube Link 2025-12-28T23:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The Christmas Dinner That Made German POWs Cry 5:53 PM - Colonel James Weston addresses [---] German POWs announces they'll receive the same Christmas meal as American soldiers 6:02 PM - Formation breaks prisoners begin filing into mess hall in groups of [--] 6:34 PM - Klaus Hartmann (26 captured at Normandy June [--] 1944) enters and receives full turkey dinner with all accompaniments KEY MOMENT (6:34-6:47 PM) Prisoners experience severe emotional breakdown while eating. Many cry some vomit from guilt. Ernst Weber (41 Hamburg lawyer father of three) stares at his plate weepinghis daughter Greta (8"
YouTube Link 2025-12-27T23:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The German POW Who Escaped and Lived in the US for [--] Years Without Being Caught In [----] German POW Georg Grtner escaped from a New Mexico prison camp and vanished into the American desert with just $14 in his pocket. For the next [--] years he lived as "Dennis Whiles"a ski instructor business owner and respected community memberwhile the FBI searched for him. He married paid taxes joined the Rotary Club and even had his photo published in newspapers. He was hiding in plain sight and nobody knew. Then in [----] at age [--] he walked into his living room and told his wife of [--] years a secret that"
YouTube Link 2025-12-26T23:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Italian POWs in Florida Refused to Leave After the War Ended - Here's Why In [----] thousands of Italian prisoners of war were sent to camps across Florida. They were expected to hate their captivity and count the days until they could return home. But something unexpected happened. When the war ended in [----] and repatriation ships arrived many of these prisoners cried. They begged the Americans to let them stay. Some tried to hide. Guards reported prisoners asking "Can we just stay" This is the true story of Sergeant Antonio Bellini and over [----] Italian POWs who were sent to Florida as"
YouTube Link 2025-12-26T05:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The German POW Who Escaped to Chicago and Lived as an American for [--] Years Before Anyone Knew In September [----] German POW Georg Grtner walked away from Camp Deming New Mexico and vanished into America for [--] years. This video covers his capture in North Africa life as a prisoner in the New Mexico desert his carefully planned escape through 120-degree heat and his transformation into Dennis F. Whilesan American ski instructor and golf pro. We explore how he forged documents in Los Angeles moved between [--] cities to avoid detection built friendships and relationships while hiding his true"
YouTube Link 2025-12-25T22:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Nazi POWs Dug a 178-Foot Tunnel Out of an Arizona Prison - What Happened Next Was Pathetic On December 23rd [----] [--] German POWs executed a flawless escape from Camp Papago Park in Arizona. They had spent three months digging a 178-foot tunnel with stolen kitchen knives and tin cans. Their plan Hike to the Colorado River build rafts float to Mexico and eventually return to Germany to keep fighting. These weren't ordinary soldiers. They were U-boat commanders Luftwaffe pilots and Afrika Korps officersGermany's elite. Led by Kapitnleutnant Jrgen Wattenberg a submarine ace who had escaped POW"
YouTube Link 2025-12-25T04:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"German POWs in Oklahoma Refused to Leave America After the War Ended When German POW Heinrich Goedecke stood at the fence of Fort Reno camp on May 8th [----] watching American guards celebrate Germany's surrender he knew he was going home. Back to a country reduced to rubble. Back to a family eating potato peels and burning furniture to stay warm. Back to a Soviet-occupied zone where men were being shipped to labor camps in Siberia. For the past [--] months Heinrich had worked on Oklahoma farms. Three meals a day. Clean bed. [--] cents a day in wages. The farmer's wife served him fried chicken at"
YouTube Link 2025-12-24T22:00Z [----] followers, 25.8K engagements
"Italian POWs in Wisconsin Were Shocked When Farmers' Daughters Started Doing This During World War II over [-----] Italian prisoners of war were sent to work on Wisconsin farms. What happened next shocked everyoneespecially the prisoners themselves. In this video we follow the true story of Private Angelo Rossi a 23-year-old Italian soldier captured in Tunisia and sent to Fort McCoy Wisconsin in [----]. Expecting harsh treatment as an enemy prisoner Angelo instead found himself working on Robert Schneider's 280-acre farm where something completely unexpected began to unfold. This is the story of"
YouTube Link 2025-12-24T02:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Nazi POWs Were Shocked The Untold Truth of Americas WWII Camp Hearne When German POW Leutnant Hans Kramer stepped off a train in Texas on July 18th [----] he expected punishment. Instead he found steak dinners tennis courts and living conditions better than most American civilians. This is the shocking true story of Camp Hearnewhere [----] Nazi prisoners lived in comfort while American families dealt with strict rationing. This story isn't just about POWs eating wellit's about the cost of maintaining moral authority during war the resentment that builds when principles conflict with emotion and"
YouTube Link 2025-12-22T23:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Nazi POWs in Texas Were Shown American Grocery Stores - What They Saw Left Them Speechless When Heinrich Vogel stepped into a small Texas grocery store in [----] he couldn't believe his eyes. After years of Nazi propaganda claiming America was starving and collapsing this German officer found shelves overflowing with foodmore than he'd seen in any German store since before the war. This is the untold story of German POWs held in Texas during WWII who lived better as prisoners than they did as soldiers. They ate [----] calories a day. They gained weight. They had hot showers clean barracks and"
YouTube Link 2025-12-21T23:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Nazi POWs in New York Were Taken to See the Statue of Liberty - They Couldn't Believe it Was Real June 12th [----]. Oberfeldwebel Klaus Hartmann stood on the deck of a Liberty Ship entering New York Harbor. For three years Nazi propaganda had told him that American cities were in ruinsbombed by the Luftwaffe economies collapsed populations starving. Then he saw the Statue of Liberty standing untouched. The Manhattan skyline intact. No bomb damage. No destruction. Everything he'd been told was a lie. What happened next would change his understanding of everything he'd fought for. This is the"
YouTube Link 2025-12-20T00:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Nazi POWs in Texas Were Fed Steak and Ice Cream - They Thought it Was a Trick June 8th [----]. A German POW stands in a Texas mess hall staring at more food than he's seen in four years of war. Roast beef. Real coffee. Butter. And ice cream. His first thought "They're trying to poison us." Heinrich Kramer had survived four years in the Wehrmacht eating starvation rations. He'd watched his daily bread shrink from [---] grams to [---] grams. He'd gone days without hot food in Tunisia before his Panzer unit ran out of fuel and he was captured. Now he's at Camp Hearne Texasa place the locals would call"
YouTube Link 2025-12-18T23:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Italian POWs in Florida Refused to Leave After the War Ended - What They Found Changed Everything This story proves that sometimes losing a war means winning a life. Sometimes being captured means being freed. Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you turns out to be the best thing. At 2:47 PM on September 17th [----] Italian POW Antonio Caruso stood in a processing line at Camp Blanding Florida watching American soldiers hand out oranges like newspapers. Three per man. Take as many as you want. More in the mess hall. Caruso had surrendered in Sicily after three years fighting in North"
YouTube Link 2025-12-17T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Nazi POWs in Colorado Were Taken to Aspen Mountain - They Couldn't Believe This Was Prison At 2:47 PM on June 23rd [----] German Unteroffizier Klaus Becker stepped off a truck outside Leadville Colorado and stared at the Rocky Mountains thinking he was being set up for a propaganda photograph. He'd been a prisoner of war for two months captured in Tunisia expecting slave labor or worse. Instead the Americans handed him a work assignment cutting timber at [-----] feet with a view that stretched sixty miles. The breakfast that next morning broke his brain: scrambled eggs bacon toast with real"
YouTube Link 2025-12-16T23:15Z [----] followers, 52.6K engagements
"Italian POWs in California Thought They Were Being Punished When Given This Job September [----]. Italian prisoner Giuseppe Toselli expected rock quarries and hard labor when he arrived in California. Instead American guards handed him an assignment that made him furious: vineyard work. He thought it was mockery. Degrading "peasant work" designed to humiliate trained craftsmen. He had no idea that within [--] months he'd own part of that vineyard. That his fellow prisonerssent to restaurant kitchens and farmswould become some of California's most successful businessmen. That the "punishment" they"
YouTube Link 2025-12-16T00:15Z [----] followers, 99.5K engagements
"German POWs in Texas Couldn't Believe They Could Go to the Movies In June [----] Unteroffizier Klaus Hartmann arrived at Camp Hearne Texas expecting harsh prison conditions. What he found instead shocked him: swimming pools movie theaters ice cream three times a week and treatment better than he'd received as a soldier in the German army. This is the incredible true story of German prisoners of war in Texas during World War II who attended Hollywood films alongside American civilians ate better food than people back home in Germany played organized soccer and some even fell in love with local"
YouTube Link 2025-12-15T00:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Nazi POWs in Arizona Were Taken to the Grand Canyon - They Couldn't Believe it Was Real In December [----] [--] German POWs escaped from Camp Papago Park near Phoenix Arizona through a 178-foot tunnel they'd spent four months digging. But their elaborate escape plan had one fatal flaw - they thought Arizona's rivers would have water. Werner Kraus and his fellow prisoners believed everything at the camp was American propaganda. The abundant food Fake. The Grand Canyon photographs in the library Hollywood creations. Their commanding officer U-boat captain Jrgen Wattenberg had convinced them it was"
YouTube Link 2025-12-14T01:15Z [----] followers, 163.4K engagements
"Italian POWs in New York Couldn't Believe They Were Being Paid to Work In May [----] Private Marco Benedetti was captured in Tunisia expecting the worststarvation abuse maybe execution. Instead he was shipped to America and found himself eating roast beef sandwiches earning [--] cents a day and living better than he ever had as a free man in Italy. This is the forgotten story of [-----] Italian prisoners of war who were sent to camps across the United States during World War II. What they found there shocked them: three meals a day with real meat clean barracks with electricity medical care and"
YouTube Link 2025-12-12T23:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Nazi POWs in Louisiana Couldn't Believe What Americans Considered 'Prison In June [----] [-----] German POWs arrived at prison camps across Louisiana expecting torture starvation and death. What they found on their dinner trays that first night shocked them more than anything they'd experienced in two years of brutal desert warfare. Karl Weber stepped off a transport truck at Camp Ruston weighing [---] pounds having not eaten a full meal in [--] days. He'd been told by SS officers that American prison camps would be death campsno mercy no Geneva Convention just slow death through neglect and cruelty."
YouTube Link 2025-12-11T23:30Z [----] followers, 93K engagements
"Nazi POWs Could Eat at American Diners But Black Soldiers Couldn't - The Irony Broke Them August 3rd [----]. Sergeant Lloyd Brown stood outside a lunch counter in Kansas watching five German prisoners of war sit down and order food. Brown was wearing a U.S. Army uniform. His job was to guard these enemy soldiers. But when he tried to enter the same diner he was refused service. The reason He was Black. This wasn't an isolated incident. Across America during World War II approximately [------] German POWs were held in camps mostly in the South. Due to the Geneva Convention they were treated"
YouTube Link 2025-12-10T23:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"How One Nazi POW Escaped Camp Grant and Lived Free in America At 3:47 PM on September 21st [----] German Sergeant Reinhold Pabel walked away from a POW work detail with just $10.20 in his pocket. What happened next shocked the FBI and changed everything we thought we knew about World War II prisoners. Pabel was a combat veteran of the brutal Russian front and Italian campaign. Captured wounded and sent to Camp Grant Illinois he experienced something he never expected: American generosity. The food was incredible. The treatment was humane. He saw opportunity everywhere. But when the war ended"
YouTube Link 2025-12-09T21:30Z [----] followers, 111.7K engagements
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