re: Anyone have old family stories about German POW camps where you lived?

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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.

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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.