He was llkely pre-ironic
--R
On 7/22/14 3:00 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote:
Did he say it with a straight face?
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
My family had German POWs on the farm during the war. My grandmother tells
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Presumably, he was two years old...
-Curt
From: Andrew Strasfogel
To: Curt Raymond ; Mercedes Discussion List
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] German POWs from WWII
Did he say it with a straight face?
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at
uot;Out killing Germans."
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> From: Randy Bennell via Mercedes
> To: Mercedes Discussion List
> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 11:26 AM
> Subject: [MBZ] German POWs from WWII
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> There were POW camps on Lake of the Woods during
BZ] 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
POW camp in USA was a cake walk compared to duty at the Russian front
these guys knew it. There was a concerted effort to impress German POW's on
just how wonderful America was, while maintaining the POW status.
Overall, we Americans were very humane in treatment of prisoners in the WW2
conflic
I wonder how well OUR soldiers fared in German POW camps...
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> 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
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 v
