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re: Anyone have old family stories about German POW camps where you lived?
Posted on 7/23/17 at 2:52 pm to Pectus
Posted on 7/23/17 at 2:52 pm to Pectus
There was one in Alliceville, Alabama (about an hour from T-town). Many of the prisoners wrote letters home telling how much they enjoyed their time there. One of them called it a "golden cage". They paid the prisoners something like 75 cents a day for labor on mainly agricultural projects. Once the war was over the prisoners were sent back to Germany. Many of the former prisoners sent letters back to friends they'd made in Alabama asking for assistance since their homeland was destroyed during the war and Alabamains responded by sending food, blankets and money to them. There's a little museum in Alliceville that tells all about the POW camp.
Posted on 7/23/17 at 4:34 pm to KyleOrtonsMustache
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Many of the former prisoners sent letters back to friends they'd made in Alabama asking for assistance since their homeland was destroyed during the war and Alabamains responded by sending food, blankets and money to them.
As the Soviets were tearing through from the east many German soldiers were fleeing to the west to be captured by the Americans instead. You held a slim chance of survival if captured by the Soviets.
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