The Industrial Reality That German POWs Couldn’t Believe

Описание: In 1943, thousands of German soldiers captured in North Africa were transported to the United States as prisoners of war. What they expected to find was a weak, divided nation on the verge of collapse — exactly as Nazi propaganda had promised them.

What they actually discovered was something entirely different.

This video tells the true story of German POWs who arrived in America during World War II and witnessed, firsthand, the full scale of American industrial power. Vast ports operating day and night. Passenger trains instead of boxcars. Endless factories producing aircraft, ships, steel, and weapons at a pace Germany could not comprehend. Farms powered by electricity, machines replacing hundreds of workers, and a standard of living that contradicted everything they had been taught.

Through personal diaries, letters, and postwar testimonies, this documentary explores how exposure to American industry, logistics, and everyday life slowly dismantled the ideological foundations of Nazism — without propaganda, without coercion, and without violence.

For many prisoners, captivity became a moment of revelation. They saw how a democratic society organized production, fed its population, treated enemies, and mobilized resources on a scale that made victory inevitable. By the end of the war, thousands of former POWs would return to Germany carrying not just memories of defeat, but an understanding of how modern industrial society actually worked.

This is not a story about battles or generals.
It is a story about factories, farms, railroads, and ports.
About abundance versus scarcity.
And about how reality can destroy ideology more effectively than any weapon.

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