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During World War II, more than 425,000 German soldiers were held as prisoners of war inside the United States—an extraordinary and often forgotten chapter of the global conflict. Captured on distant battlefields, these men were transported across the Atlantic to a nation they had been taught to despise and underestimate. What they encountered instead was a country of immense industrial power, unexpected humanity, and social contradictions that quietly challenged the ideology they had grown up with.
This documentary explores the real, lived experience of German POWs in America: their capture, transport, daily life inside the camps, forced labor on farms and in factories, internal Nazi discipline, exposure to American society, and the psychological transformation many underwent. It also follows their return to a devastated Germany and examines how captivity in the United States shaped postwar lives, identities, and even the rebuilding of Europe itself.
Far from the front lines, behind barbed wire scattered across rural America, World War II continued to be fought—not with bullets and bombs, but with ideas, industry, and human contact. This is the untold story of how captivity became confrontation, and how enemies left changed forever.



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WW2 documentary
German POWs
German prisoners of war
WW2 America
Forgotten WW2 history
Hidden history WW2
WW2 prison camps
America WWII home front
Geneva Convention WW2
Nazi Germany soldiers
WW2 captivity
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Historical documentary
Military history
WW2 Germany
American war industry
WW2 reeducation camps
Postwar Germany
True history documentary



Arnold Krammer – Nazi Prisoners of War in America (Stein and Day)
U.S. National Archives (NARA) – Records of German POW camps in the United States
Paul J. Springer – America’s Captives: Treatment of POWs from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror
Smithsonian National Museum of American History – WWII POW exhibits and oral histories
Library of Congress – German POW photographs, letters, and camp records
United States Army Center of Military History – POW policy and Geneva Convention compliance
Günter Bischof & Stephen Ambrose – Studies on POWs and postwar reconciliation
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) – Geneva Convention documentation and inspections
Oral History Interviews – Former German POWs archived in U.S. and German universities