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Why German soldiers fled to American lines in World War II
In the final days of World War II, hundreds of thousands of German soldiers and civilians fled west to surrender to American forces. This story follows General Walther Wenck, collapsing German armies, ...
(WGHP) — It’s hard, in today’s “Pax Americana,” to understand the desperation that existed in so much of the world at the end of World War II. Few felt it like a young German woman who had gotten ...
A group of POWs staged a sit-down strike at local processing plants. One POW, Heinz Golze, escaped from camps five times. Young women working alongside POWs were said to be "very familiar" with them.
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