Posted by warbaby on May 29, 2021 at 09:16:45 from (24.247.205.221):
In Reply to: Worker shortage posted by 37 chief on May 29, 2021 at 08:30:10:
There were several POW camps in Michigan that sent out prisoners to local farms. The German prisoners were by-and-large a well-behaved group with few escapes because they were well aware that being a P.O.W. in the U.S. was a Golden Ticket to survive the war. No prisoner wanted to risk their fairly comfortable internment here where they certainly had it far better compared to the horrors that there fellow soldiers were experiencing in Soviet camps or on the battlefields as the tide of the war turned in the Allies favour.
HOWEVER, There was a famous incident out of the camp in Owosso, Michigan where in 1944 two teen-aged girls stole a car and helped two Germans escape the camp there for a few days. After hiding out in the woods for 4 days they were caught, the Germans were returned to the camp and the girls actually spent some time in prison.
I'm not sure what job those girls needed handled so urgently to go to such extreme measures, but those POWs had 4 days & nights to git 'er done!
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