TheIronDiaries
Recruit
- 7
- Oct 23, 2026
Summer 1943. A German soldier captured in North Africa steps off a train in Texas. His officers told him American prison camps would be brutal. He is handed a metal tray. Hot food. White bread. Cold milk. He does not eat. He hides bread in his pockets, certain the real rations will come later. They never do.
I put together a short documentary on the 371,683 German soldiers held in America: 500 camps across 45 states, the farm work that saved the harvest, 80 cents a day, and the friendships across the wire that kept going for decades after they went home in 1946.
Video here:
View: https://youtu.be/fdR6WIFTKPk
Did your family ever cross paths with the POW camps? Happy to be corrected on any detail. Sources are in the description.
I put together a short documentary on the 371,683 German soldiers held in America: 500 camps across 45 states, the farm work that saved the harvest, 80 cents a day, and the friendships across the wire that kept going for decades after they went home in 1946.
Video here:
View: https://youtu.be/fdR6WIFTKPk
Did your family ever cross paths with the POW camps? Happy to be corrected on any detail. Sources are in the description.
