A typical German POW, Rudolf Velte
Camp Pori (white dot, lower center) was about 25 miles southwest of my location, Ontonagon, on Lake Superior
Marker
Here is a good pdf on the Wehrmacht POWs in the UP:
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Camp Raco
A guard tower today
…Before we Americans get all self-congratulatory
The tone in these books and articles on the German POWs held in America during WWII are somewhat cheery and patting-oourselves-on-the-back. Yes, the Germans were (as ever) very cooperative, hard-working, orderly, inventive and peaceful. (A few did run away but did not get far — being in full Wehrmacht uniform! 😉 — and either not speaking English, or with a pretty heffy akzent 😉 — and were recaptured without any violence.)
The message is that “we treated them well, and yes, they behaved well. Then they were returned in 1946 to a Germany that we wonderful Americans were busy transforming into a prosperous, freedom-loving democracy.”
BULL.
First, we had bombed Germany back into the Stone Age in WWII…. One million civilians died, often burned to death or buried alive under rubble. After the first bombing run, usually we then came back a second time to bombed the Red Cross, and US fighter planes strafed the firemen rescuing civilians. Or bombs went off that were timed to explode 30 minutes after hitting the ground so as to kill the rescuers……….. the Greatest Generation, my eye!
AFTER the Wehrmacht capitulated ( and nota bene that the Third Reich, the government, never capitulated, only the Armed Forces located IN EUROPE!), then the rape, looting, expulsion of 15 million people from their homes, and the deliberate starvation of the Germans began.
This is a real photo.
Tens of thousands of rapes by GIs –including rapes by the “boogie-woogie Bugle Boys of Company C” committed also against French women!
It was into this HELL that the German POWs of the UP of Michigan were thrust in 1946.
¦ ¦Hellstorm: the documentary: Remembering the 16 million Germans murdered by the All-Lies
I and Margi did six of the voices on the famous Hellstorm documentary, and remember, far more Germans were killed AFTER the war by the depraved, honorless Allies than before!
“Hellstorm” is based on the book of the same name by Thomas Goodrich, showing what the US, UK and USSR did to the average working people of their brother white nation of Germany.
I provided three of the voices in this film, and Margi also three.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4661358/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm
My voice
1) (Dresden) 21:35-55
2) (Ilya Ehrenburg, yes, that is I, playing this horrific Jew 😉 ) 30:05-37
3) 69:26- 70:00 (on Jews interrogating German civilians to force “confessions”
Margaret performed here:
1) 33:40-34:17
2) 39:03-28.
3) 68:43-69:03 (as Leni Riefenstahl)
A German friend wrote me, concerning his own grandmother: “She could only feed herself, her young kids and sick mother if she sold her body to Soviet troops.”
Everyone should also see “Germany: Year Zero” by the leftist Italian moviemaker Roberto Rossellini, who was appalled at the poverty and starvation YEARS AFTER the war ended. The Allies trucked and shipped food OUT of Germany to CAUSE starvation, to break the German spirit, and to force the women of the Reich into prostitution to their conquerors. (The film does have some small, gratuitous Nazi-bashing — IMO just so the Jews would show the film.)
You will never forget the ending. 🙁 🙁 🙁
(Spoiler alert: This is the heart-breaking ending of “Germany: Year Zero”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ3FUkjvwMs]
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