German POWs Couldn’t Believe Americans Ate Peanut Butter Daily

Описание: Discover the forgotten story of how thousands of German POWs in America during World War II were left speechless by something as simple as food. Captured Wehrmacht soldiers, shipped to over 500 prisoner-of-war camps across the United States between 1943 and 1946, expected hunger and humiliation. Instead, they were served meals overflowing with meat, milk, fruit—and a strange American staple they had never seen before: peanut butter.

For men who had survived on watery soup and rationed bread in Nazi Germany, the daily sight of peanut butter spread thick on white bread was more than strange—it was unbelievable. Diaries and letters describe confusion, laughter, even disbelief that Americans, from children to prisoners, could eat like kings while Europe starved.

This meticulously researched documentary reveals how ordinary food became a weapon stronger than propaganda. From 3,000-calorie POW rations to farms larger than German provinces, from neon-lit cities untouched by blackout to factories producing a bomber every hour, German soldiers discovered that America’s strength lay not only in weapons, but in abundance.

Based on declassified reports, eyewitness accounts, and prisoner diaries, this film uncovers how even peanut butter symbolized a larger truth: the collapse of Nazi ideology when confronted with America’s industrial power and humanity. Learn why most POWs never attempted escape, how some returned home to rebuild Europe as democrats, and why a taste of peanut butter became a symbol of an empire’s defeat.

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