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2017-10-09 -Land of the Free

Günter Gräwe returns to the US to say 'Thank You.'

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-10-09 05:30|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 My grandfather worked in that camp during WWII as a guard. He once told me the prisoners asked how they could stay in America once the war was over.

Posted by Airandee 2017-10-09 08:28|| 2017-10-09 08:28|| Front Page Top

#2 History Link article on Fort Lewis WWII POW Camp.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-10-09 08:33|| 2017-10-09 08:33|| Front Page Top

#3 three of the few bright shining stars of the Seattle area,JBLM...Oak Harbor....and Bangor

Posted by 746 2017-10-09 11:46|| 2017-10-09 11:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Met an old guy in central Texas (near New Braunfels) with a thick german accent. Owned a store/BBQ joint. Told me he had been captured as a Afrika Corps tank commander in WW2, and sent to a holding camp in Texas and repatriated at the end.
He said "I was fighting and they forced me to come to Texas the first time, and then I had to fight to get back here the second time."
(FYI the Geneva Protocols require that POW's be held in a similar climate to where they were captured, not where they're from.)

Posted by ed in texas 2017-10-09 16:27|| 2017-10-09 16:27|| Front Page Top

(FYI the Geneva Protocols require that POW's be held in a similar climate to where they were captured, not where they're from.)

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why no one was captured in the Aleutians.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2017-10-09 16:53|| 2017-10-09 16:53|| Front Page Top

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