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Between 1943 and 1946, more than 370,000 German prisoners of war were brought to the United States. Many were elite veterans of Hitler’s Afrika Korps, hardened by combat and convinced by propaganda that America was weak, divided, and decadent. What they found shattered everything they believed.
They watched U.S. factories roll out a B-24 bomber every hour, farms stretch endlessly across the land, and ordinary workers live with comfort unknown in wartime Europe. Cities stayed bright at night. Assembly lines never slowed. For the first time, Nazi claims of superiority began to fall apart.
Held in over 500 POW camps across the country, these prisoners discovered that America’s real strength wasn’t just steel and machinery—it was freedom, opportunity, and everyday people. Guards treated them humanely. Local families showed unexpected kindness. And those small moments did more damage to Nazi ideology than any battlefield defeat.
Drawing from declassified intelligence files, POW diaries, and firsthand testimonies, this video reveals how enemy soldiers quietly lost faith in the regime they once fought for—and why fewer than 1% ever attempted escape.
You’ll meet former POWs who later helped rebuild democratic Europe and learn how America won one of its most overlooked victories—not with weapons, but with values.
In the end, these men didn’t just realize they’d lost the war.
They realized they were looking at the future.
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