Are We Allowed to Smile? German Children POW Asked After Entering an American Camp
Автор: WW2 Untold
Загружено: 2025-12-22
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Silence followed them through the gates until one small voice asked the unthinkable: “Are we allowed to smile?”
In the final years of World War II, thousands of German child and teenage POWs, some as young as 12 from the Volkssturm and Hitler Youth, entered American POW camps after brutal fighting in 1944–1945. Expecting beatings, starvation, or execution, they instead found Red Cross inspections, Geneva Convention rations of 3,500 calories a day, and guards ordered to treat them humanely under U.S. Army Field Manual 27-10.
Declassified camp reports and firsthand memoirs reveal the shock: clean barracks, medical care, even baseball games. For boys raised on Nazi propaganda, this encounter with the American military shattered everything they were taught.
Sometimes, the most powerful weapon in WWII wasn’t a rifle but mercy.
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