German POWs returning home (1944)

[binaway]

In the 19th century a Germany writer produced a lot of books about the US Wild West from stories he heard from returned German immigrants. The German immigrant was always the hero, the Indian portrayed as the noble savage & the Anglo American always the baddy. During communism in East Germany the party allowed people to join a wild west movement with Germans dressed as Indians, war paint, feathers the lot & staged huge pow wows base on the books. As nothing else was allowed it was fun

[s6u6r6f6]

Pass the word Kameraden.

Americans have guns, cars, trucks and plenty of food....and thats just the civilians.

Stupid Krauts...what were they thinking starting another war they couldnt win

[Lockbar]

Considering the war was going to be over in a year, I bet the Germans with the Mexican hats wished they has stayed in Mexico.

[bioha2ar3]

Some Germans actually fled to Mexico before the Americans could get them. Mexico welcomed the german soldiers in whenever needed.

[Piquete]

@bioha2ar3 Thanks for the info. Im from Mexico City and I always wondered why here so many families here are of german origin.

[bv141a]

@Piquete the Germans came to Mexico after the first ww,when Germans had to leave their colonial homes abroad,either go back home,or emigrate somewhere else[Mexico]

[romanlegions]

Wait a minute, what date in 44 did this happen? I thought that POWs were forbidden under Hitler, i understand they were to be shot and family punished in later 45, but 44?

Doubt that the soldiers would be treated as that big of a fanfare if the public knew they surrendered to the "untermenscht" or the inferior races. Would the majority of these POWs be from the western fronts?

[VitaminsAndPiss]

@romanlegions No, that Allied propaganda has just gotten to your little head.

[historatia]

@romanlegions Don't be ridiculous. Your view of German civilization seeks to have been shaped by too much Hollywood. This type of Goebbels propaganda is most interesting since it emulates what Richard Nixon would would do 28 years later on getting back his POW's from Hanoi.

[Suomizki]

Go germans go germans!

[tusenkunstneren2]

The TASS paper informed that 4th of May 1945 the russians had 3.180.000 german prisoners. Maybe the numbers were much higher, but we will never know for sure. Molotov said in the conferanse of Foreign Affairs Ministers in Moscow in 1947 had released 1.003974 german pow between may 1945 and march 1947. He claimed it were only 890532 pows in Russia.

[tusenkunstneren2]

Sitat fra side 30:

"The TASS byrået ble informert av den 4 mai 1945 at Sovjetunionen hadde 3.180.000 tyske fanger. Etter kapitulasjonen skjedde ved 8 mai kan vi innrømme at det endelige antallet var høyere. Ingen vil noensinne få vite det nøyaktige antallet. Likevel, under en tale av Molotov på konferansen of Foreign Affairs Ministrene i Moskva, 14 mars 1947, erklærte han at Sovjetunionen hadde allerede frigjort 1.003.974 krigsfanger mellom mai 1945 og 5 mars 1947.

[legionario501]

yeah but they were INTERNED.... not say anything about scape or something ?

[SSminky]

There was 6 or so German POW camps in New Mexico (America). 511 in total in America. There were some escapes to Mexico which is doccumented.

[legionario501]

im mexican i dont know anything about prisioner camps in mexico

very strange

[NJRocks281]

They probably got the hats in new mexico,

[racer180sx]

i bet once they got back home they returned back into circulation with the wermacht the only difference is they used their fave mexican hats!

[ricardoblacksabbath]

now i get why there is a lot of people with germans lastname and blond people in north mexico, maybe they scaped

[mfsb100]

You mean like Kuno Becker ?

[ricardoblacksabbath]

thats something new!! germans with mexican hats???? they took a trip to tijuana or nuevo laredo??? LOL

[elbwolf189]

what ?? camps in Mexico to these pow ..?? i dont belive !!! somebaody have any date or information about that ??

[ricardoblacksabbath]

do you now anything of pow s in mexico thats the fisrt time i heard about it , why get em to mexico??? well mexico was allied on ww2 but i never hear any of that

[galacticote6]

prisioner camps in Mexico? dont recall ever hearing about that

[quest8899]

They look like they just got back from vacation.

[novice8814]

They were on vacation. Some escaped. Adopted American identities and never returned home. And lived quietly as "Americans".

[calibre9mm]

haha germans with mexican hats...didnt see that coming

[MrJimmyboy1972]

@calibre9mm thats the panchovillastandarte ss they bombard their enemies with chili and jalopenas until they either give up or go for the bicarb.

[Orochimaru4eva]

Why are they being returned home if the war hasn't been finished???

[emmteez]

I dont know, that is a good point. They traded prisoners of war wich I think is respectable. But seeing how most of these guys were probably re-instated into the wehrmacht its very strange. Maybe it was because the Germans were planning on making truce with America in hopes of America joining with the Nazis and fighting Russia? Maybe they were trying to warm up to the Americans and the German people about the Americans for future alliance?

[heydrich10]

because you schmucks think what you been told .

the red cross had offices in Germany with daily contact with Wehrmacht officials. they traded pow

from 1940 till last October 1944

[Orochimaru4eva]

us schmucks? HAHAHAHAHA

[novice8814]

I think because there was civility and understanding between the Germans and the western powers. We treated P.O.W.s decently and exchanged them. Too bad we had to fight each other to the benefit of stalin and his minions.

[asdffd]

"They are given German newspapers to read for the first time in years to catch up on the real situation at home."

LOL! Yeah right. I think most of these folks knew the REAL situation without reading newspapers- things weren't going well for the Nazis!

[TheSouthernGentleman]

I don't think they could hide what was going on when the bombs were falling on the street.