My family had German POWs on the farm during the war. My grandmother tells stories of how they all wanted to hold my dad on their breaks and how they missed their kids back home and whatnot. She says the guard used to leave his gun in the car and do farm work too. According to her none of the prisoners were ever a problem.
One day one of the POWs asked my dad where his father was, my dad replied "Out killing Germans." -Curt ________________________________ From: Randy Bennell via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 11:26 AM Subject: [MBZ] German POWs from WWII There were POW camps on Lake of the Woods during the war. One of the fellows who was imprisoned there went home to Germany after the war but continued to visit during the summers and owned a cottage there in his retirement until he and his wife became too old to make the trip any more. He had very fond memories of his time there during the war. He felt he was treated very well. Randy _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
