The Texas POW Camps: America’s Unexpected Humanity in World War II

Описание: Discover the forgotten history of WW2 German POWs in America.
How Texas became home to thousands of captured soldiers — and a surprising story of humanity in wartime.
In 1942, as the war raged across Europe and the Pacific, thousands of German prisoners of war were quietly shipped across the Atlantic — not to prisons, but to the open plains of Texas.
What they found there defied everything they had been told: clean beds, decent food, and Americans who treated them not as enemies, but as human beings.
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This is the untold story of the Texas POW camps — where captured soldiers learned that freedom was not only a right, but a way of living.
Based on real historical records and eyewitness accounts, this WW2 chronicle explores how the United States became the largest keeper of Axis prisoners, and how simple acts of fairness would reshape post-war Germany itself.

Watch till the end to see how a small town in Texas changed the lives of hundreds of former enemies.

✍️ Written and narrated in the spirit of “WW2 Chronicles.”

Sources / Further Reading
1. Arnold Krammer, Nazi Prisoners of War in America (New York: Stein and Day, 1979).
2. U.S. War Department, History of Prisoner of War Utilization by the United States Army, 1776–1945 (Department of the Army Pamphlet No. 20-213, 1955).
3. Texas State Historical Association, “German Prisoners of War,” Handbook of Texas Online (updated 2024).
4. Camp Hearne Historical Site, “History of Camp Hearne,” official museum archives and exhibits.
5. National WWII Museum (New Orleans), “Enemy Behind the Wire: German Prisoners of War in America.”
6. U.S. Army Center of Military History, The Geneva Convention of 1929 and the Treatment of Prisoners of War.
7. University of North Texas Digital Library, “Intellectual Diversion Program for German POWs, 1943–1946” (Master’s Thesis, 2013).