And why were these POWs in Texas? Were they captured in North Africa?
Seems like whomever was in charge of this burial in 1943 was a little too accommodating to German wishes.
Probably. POWs were supposed to be kept in an environment similar to the one they were captured in; many were sent to the southwest. I knew an Afrika Korp guy who ended up in Arizona and never did go back to Germany.
You know folks, I’m not sold on the idea, this was a swell
thing to do in 1943.
It still bothers me that we are in the midst of a anal
cleansing of this nation that hasn’t nearly peaked yet if
I’m reading things accurately.
There is literally no stopping the people who are now going
around looking for any reason whatsoever to purge something
from our national conscience.
I don’t think we should be buying into this nonsense.
Each of you know we’re the ultimate target of these people
and the demands are going to get more outlandish as the
months go by.
We need to be thinking about slowing this nonsense down,
rather than trying to find some reasoning behind the purge.
This isn’t going to end well.
There was a large group of German POW’s in a camp in Northern Iowa. The camp has been turned into a museum which also houses a beautiful life-sized Nativity display that some of the prisoners carved.
https://www.pwcampalgona.org/nativity
I don’t know if there are any gravesites at the local cemetery.
It seems immoral to replace tombstones because they are politically incorrect today. We should respect the dead where they lay, else return them to Germany for burial in their military cemetary.
They were often used to work on farms. America GI’s who were black resented the fact that because of Jim Crow Laws in the South German POWs who were not deemed to be a security risk could go to movie theaters and restaurants they themselves weren't permitted to enter.
Like Cemetary Ridge and Seminery Ridge at Gettysburg.
Just wait until the muslims finish taking over France and see what they’ll do to American graves in Normandy. I think they already demonstrated a bit in Libya.
This reminds me of the destruction of Indian mound burials like Spiro in Oklahoma or Powell Mound in Illinois or all the mounds under St. Louis. It’s one thing if the descendents of the deceased want to install new headstones or memorials but wrong for those without family connections to do so, even if offended.
German POW’s helped build Lake Texoma. There were quite a few POW’s in Oklahoma and Texas.
The left is rewriting the past so they have an excuse to change the present. Reason enough to stop any such efforts .
This is Kafkaesque.
There is a movie about the POW camps with Roy Scheider. “The Good War.”
Regards,
Taliban strikes again.
You take prisoners, you got to put them somewhere.
Many sites in the US were used as prison camps.
If you take away the swastika, there is nothing to aim at when one pees.
“And why were these POWs in Texas?”
My father recalls German POW’s working the fields in Central California back in the day.
On a side note my neighbor on a street I grew up was a prisoner in a German Stalag. He said Americans were treated very well. He would would write letters for the guards who had family back in the US.
I was only 12-13 when he talked about this. Looking back wish I could have asked him more questions.
One would think since the war is over, and we are allies now, the US would not disturb or change German graves without consultation with either the families of the German dead, or the German government.