German POW Mothers Braced for Beatings — U.S. Soldiers Gently Returned Their Lost Children
Автор: WWII Hidden Courage
Загружено: 2025-12-04
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Discover the extraordinary true story of 200 German mothers and their children held at Camp Como, Mississippi in 1945 who expected the worst from their American captors but received something that would shatter everything they believed. When Greta Schmidt and other German women prisoners of war arrived in America with their children, Nazi propaganda had convinced them that Americans would separate families, starve prisoners, and show no mercy to the defeated. Instead, on their first day, an American soldier walked into the barracks holding not a weapon, but a teddy bear—and a list of children who had been lost during the war's chaos, children the Americans had searched for and were now reuniting with their mothers. This powerful account reveals how these German mothers experienced hot showers, abundant meals, medical care for sick children, and genuine kindness from enemy soldiers who gave their daughters dolls and taught their sons to play baseball. As letters arrived from starving families in devastated Germany, the women faced crushing cognitive dissonance—their children thrived in captivity while German children died at home. Watch as these mothers wrestle with the devastating realization that their enemies treated them with more dignity than their own leaders ever had, transforming their worldview through daily acts of mercy. This story demonstrates how America defeated German ideology not just through military victory but through something far more powerful: choosing compassion over revenge, dignity over domination, and proving that even enemies deserve basic human rights. Subscribe for more untold World War II stories that reveal humanity's capacity for kindness even in our darkest hours.Retry
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