“This Is a Trap…” — German POW Entered an American Home… and Everything Changed-ZZ
Hayes, Kansas, June 1945. The day started the same way every day started. 5:30. The light coming through the barracks window still gray and uncertain,…
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She drank from the glass. After a long time, she said quietly to no one in particular. In the tone of a woman reading aloud…
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Late October 1945, the war had been over for 5 months. Sophie Winsel knew this the way you know something that has not yet finished…
Read more“Coke For Dinner Tonight, Ladies” — German Women POWs Broke Down in Tears at American Camp-ZZ – Part 2
Corporal Webb, passing behind their table with the ease of a man thoroughly at home in the room, heard her and stopped. He said it…
Read more“Coke For Dinner Tonight, Ladies” — German Women POWs Broke Down in Tears at American Camp-ZZ
April 12th, 1945. The city of air fort was still standing, which was more than could be said for most things in Germany by then….
Read moreA German Woman POW Couldn’t Believe Every American Worker Had a Car — Then She Saw the Whole City-ZZ – Part 2
” without looking up. still laughing at whatever the girl had said. And the girl looked at Hannah directly and smiled with the easy warmth…
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