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To: Ilaine who wrote (4214)12/15/2002 11:38:20 PM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (1) of 6901
 
Hi CobaltBlue; Re: "They demanded to be fed the same bread that Americans ate and would not believe that what they were given was, in fact, exactly the same bread that Americans ate."

I hope that our bread has improved since then, LOL. I wonder if the story is apocryphal. Here are some interesting links on German PoWs in the US:

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Food was not a complaint for the prisoners.
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Captured soldiers often feel they have a duty to escape, but the possibilities of successful escapes were remote in Mississippi. ... Their German accents, their POW clothes, or their lack of money gave them away. Despite their failures, some POWs kept trying. ...
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The war in Europe ended in May 1945, but the POWs remained in the compounds and continued to work — some for almost a year after the war ended. American soldiers were mustered out of the military quickly and efficiently, but President Harry Truman decided that a labor shortage existed in the United States and that the POWs should remain in this country until the labor shortage was over. Some POWs did not get home to Germany until mid-1946. They had been in the Mississippi camps almost three years.
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mshistory.k12.ms.us

traces.org

There are also stories claiming that Eisenhower ran death camps for German PoWs after seeing the liberated German death camps. I'd never heard of such claims. For example, this link:
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-- Carl

P.S. An old buddy of mine bought American "Bunny" bread from the PX when he was stationed in Italy. His aged off base landlord was unable to chew the Italian stuff.
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