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Remember the USS Liberty
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Several German POW's escaped in America. Only one or two ever really got away. One of them hid for THREE DECADES after WW2, actually becomming an American citizen under an assumed name. He finally "came out of the closet" and admitted who he really was (not even his wife knew his past). He was pardoned and went back to visit his brother and sister (parent had long ago died) in Germany as an American visitor. Interesting story.

A lot of German POW's were doing odd jobs around the nation under almost no armed supervision. My late father told me they had many of them in Michigan helping the fruit farmers pick their harvest and doing farm chores. They used to bring them into small cafe's in Muskegon for lunch and all the locals would stare at them-out of curiosity, not hostility. I'm sure a lot of false perceptions-on both sides-were removed by these encounters. People are people.



Would you trust this man"

@magnus4 can you find any sourse on this man? or book?

"As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me": The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Escape from a Siberian Labour Camp and His 3-Year Trek to Freedom"

Took him 3 years from Siberian pow-camp to Turkey...

And this pilot Franz Von Werra,was a real escape-artist......

"Von Werra became a hero. Hitler granted him the Ritterkreuz, and he got married. He also commented on the conditions in the German prisoner of war camps, comparing them unfavourably to British ones, which may have led to improvements for British POWs. Von Werra returned to the Luftwaffe and was initially deployed to the Russian front, but later flew fighter patrols over the North Sea.

On 25 October 1941, while serving with Jagdgeschwader 53, von Werra disappeared while on a routine patrol in the Netherlands north of Vlissingen, probably due to engine failure."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_von_Werra