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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy Father was a POW during WWII
He took pictures. The conditions in, at least his Nazi camp, were better than in Trump's camps.
He was in Stanislau, Poland (now Ukraine) from 1942 to 1945. He was liberated by the Soviets.
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamp_Stanislau#/media/Bestand:%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D2%91%E2%80%94371.jpg
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My Father was 2nd from the left, standing. Yes. They actually had cigarettes!
MaryMagdaline
(6,855 posts)Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)HOME.
I did a little reading on the POW (German and Italian soldiers) camps in America during WWII, and couldnt help but compare them to todays Trump/Miller camps:
Over 13,000 prisoners made Camp Florence (AZ) their home between its opening in the summer of 1943 and December 1945. The 500 acre complex featured barracks, a hospital, a bakery, a swimming pool, ball fields, and several theaters, all surrounded by the usual concertina wire and watch towers. All of the prisoners were from either Germany or Italy, many of whom had been captured during the North African Campaign. The Italians were solely enlisted men; officers were held at camps in other parts of the country. Apart from athletics, to occupy their time and earn money the prisoners could acquire a pass to work in the vegetable fields in the area. Also, those who renounced Italy's fascist government were organized into service units and shipped to military facilities throughout the United States, including Fort Lawton in Seattle, Washington.[10][11][12]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_during_World_War_II
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)during his time here. How the Rockies reminded him of the Alps.
Turns out he was a POW during WWII. Being Germans in the middle of nowhere and figuring they wouldn't get too far, security was light.
If we had treated those POWs like we treat Central American kids, we should have had a place in the dock at Nuremberg.
The conditions in those camps remind of Andersonville, where the commander was hanged for war crimes.
applegrove
(118,677 posts)camp.It would be horrid no doubt. I think the word concentration camp comes from the british incarcerating Boars during the Boar war. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_concentration_camps
Nazis had camps for journalists and political prisoners before WWII where they were fed and not murdered. These were called 'concentration camps' too. I think that is the point of AOC's comments... that it was a slippery slope to gassing people. And at each stage they were called concentration camps.
eppur_se_muova
(36,266 posts)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment
applegrove
(118,677 posts)TrogL
(32,822 posts)I was born in 1955 which puts me half a generation away from WW II. I grew up on stories of war, pogroms and concentration camps. I thought I had put all that behind me, but here we are.