Umm, because they _didn't_?
There are the remains of German and Italian POW camps all over the southern US. I live 15 miles from one.
I've a friend that told me once "My dad fought at Normandy on D-Day. But he didn't get there by boat." Seventeen year old conscripted to guard a gun emplacement. He was captured and spent the war in a Mississippi POW camp. Loved it. Better food and no fighting.
I read they killed 4-500,000 German pow.
Have been an avid reader of WWII history most of my life and have never seen such claim. My guess is revisionist bullshit. I've had personal connection to two of the POW camps (one in Alabama, one in Mississippi). POWs rented to local farmers as day labor. Very lightly guarded. Reason? The POWs were treated fantastically well and fed squarely. Liked it here and didn't want to leave.
Edit: I used to work with a guy whose father drove the prisoner bus out to the farms for the day. I was told he'd nap away the afternoons and the prisoners would wake him at end of day when it was time to drive back to the camp.
Have a similar story from a family friend whose father guarded Wehrmacht POW's in Arkansas. The camp mayor (warden, basically) would allow the POW's to go hiking in the Ozark National Forest (their camp was set within the National Forest boundaries) and the Germans absolutely loved it. Wasn't too different from Bavaria for them, so they enjoyed cutting roads on mountain passes and getting to run around in the woods all day. Family friend said that he remembers hearing stories about how some of the POW's had fought out east in the mud and ice of Kharkiv, and that being a POW was the best "combat tour" they'd ever had. They were "model prisoners" and honestly really happy to be there. Never a single escape attempt, never any fights, or violence. Always came around for accountability and were basically "trustees" with an armed escort at all times. Fascinating stories..
Rhine Meadows Death camps in Germany, where they made efforts to round up each and every single enlisted military service men after the war Eisenhower also forbade red cross to allow food parcels and medical supplies. American newspapers also widely reported on the claim that they were forecasting up a 1 million deaths every three month period or something iirc, from starvation and dysentery as they literally stopped feeding the prisoners and corralled them in open fields with no shelter and open latrine pits and that this was a Good thing. Overseas Camps were entirely different in how they were ran. Did you read mainstream publishing house books, bc of course they wouldn't mention this at all.
I've read that the german pows once paroled in the traditional sense had a gay ole time in the southern US. Had parties, dated women, ran businesses of sorts. I can't recall if they were let off site or not but I think they were in some cases.
My friend's father was in a Mississippi POW camp. Wanted to stay there at war's end but they were not allowed to. So he moved to Windsor, Ontario. That's where my friend grew up.
Yes they did. Look up Rine death meadows.
Here you go read this
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2218946.Gruesome_Harvest
Will look into. Thanks for link.
This was written in 1947, I think 15 years before the first jew holohoax crap came out. Probably the reason why holohoax came out in the first place
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