The German POWs Mocked America at First—Then They Saw Its Factories

Описание: The German POWs Mocked America at First—Then They Saw Its Factories

🚂 In January 1944, hundreds of German prisoners of war stepped off a train in Norfolk, Virginia—expecting to find a starving, bombed-out America. Instead, they were handed coffee and sandwiches by porters in luxury Pullman cars. One POW later admitted: “Most of us forgot our anti-American feelings in that moment.”

For years, Nazi propaganda had painted the United States as weak, divided, and incapable of sustaining a modern war. But what 425,000 German POWs discovered across farms, factories, and cities shattered every lie they had been told.

In this video, you’ll see how:
• 🇩🇪 Elite Afrika Korps veterans arrived cocky and defiant—only to be stunned by what they witnessed.
• ⚙️ America’s vast industrial machine—factories producing ships, planes, and trucks at impossible speed—exposed the truth of democratic strength.
• 🍞 POWs ate better in America than many civilians in Germany, some gaining weight instead of starving.
• 📚 Education, work programs, and even exposure to strikes and free speech turned prisoners into witnesses of democracy in action.
• 🌍 These men returned to Germany not just as defeated soldiers, but as the seeds of a rebuilt democratic society.

By the war’s end, America had built an industrial miracle the world had never seen—and German POWs had experienced it firsthand. What began with mockery ended with revelation: that freedom, for all its flaws, was stronger than tyranny.

⚔️ Watch now to uncover the untold story of the German prisoners who mocked America—until they saw its factories.