German Child Soldiers Cried for Their Mothers — So American Farm Wives "Adopted" Them
Автор: WW2 Warfronts
Загружено: 2026-01-07
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They were trained to fight the United States—yet they cried for their mothers in an Iowa barn.
In the final months of World War II, as Nazi Germany collapsed, boys as young as 12 were conscripted into the Volkssturm and thrown into combat with barely loaded rifles. Captured during the Allied advance through France in autumn 1944, hundreds of these German child soldiers were transported across the Atlantic under the Geneva Convention and assigned to POW labor camps across the American Midwest. One of them was Klaus Becker, taken near Orléans and sent to a farm outside Cedar Falls, Iowa.
With over 425,000 German POWs held in the U.S., America faced a labor crisis as millions of men fought overseas. Farms depended on prisoner labor—guarded, regulated, and officially distant. Fraternization was forbidden. But when farm wives heard boys sobbing for “Mutti” at night, rules quietly broke.
Drawing from firsthand letters, Red Cross records, and declassified U.S. Army camp reports, this documentary reveals how American farm women defied military protocol to feed, comfort, and “adopt” enemy children. Quilts replaced rifles. Milk replaced rations. Christmas dinners replaced guard towers.
This is the hidden WWII front where compassion crossed battle lines—and changed lives forever.
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