re: Did you know German & Italian WW2 POWs were imprisoned in the US?

There was a POW camp where St. Charles St in Houma.is

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My great aunts met my eventual great uncles (Italian POWs) at a POW party. The uncles were shipped back to the Italy before they were married. My Aunts, two years later, after writing letters every day to their boy friends back in Italy, jumped on a ship to Italy to marry my uncles. Eventually, they all moved back to NOLA and lived happily ever after.

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Great example of this type of thing in The Godfather:

At the start of the movie, when wedding guests are asking favors of Don Corleone, one of them is a baker who tells of how he had an Italian POW work for him as part of the war effort, and the POW and the baker's daughter fell in love. He asked Don Corleone to make sure the young POW was not deported, which the the Don took care of.

Later that same year, after the Don was shot and in the hospital, he was being set up for another assassination attempt. Michael Corleone figured what was up, and moved his father to another room, and encountered a man he thought was an assassin, but turned out to be Enzo the baker (the Italian POW) who had come with flowers to show his respect to the Don. When Michael told him to leave because there was going to be trouble, Enzo said, no-- I will stay to help "for your father". They went outside and posed as Mafioso tough guys and scared off the assassins, saving Don Corleone from certain death.

That hospital scene:
The Godfather Hospital Scene