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“Deadly Winter Will Kill Us” — German Women POWs Saved by Locals in the US

January 12th, 1945. Camp McCoy, Wisconsin. 22 degrees below zero.
A train stops in the snow. The doors open. 200 German women step onto American soil wearing thin summer uniforms meant for a French autumn—not a Wisconsin winter.

Within minutes, their breath freezes. Their fingers numb. One young woman collapses on the platform. And every one of them thinks the same thought:

“This is where we die.”

Because back home, Nazi radio had promised a simple truth:
American captivity—especially for women—meant abuse, starvation, and a slow death in the cold.

But 72 hours later, something happens that shatters their entire worldview.

They are sitting in a warm mess hall, eating scrambled eggs, bacon, fresh bread with butter—and an American farm woman is wrapping a hand-knitted wool scarf around a prisoner’s neck like she’s protecting her own daughter.

This is not a battle story.
It’s a survival story—where the most dangerous threat isn’t bullets.

It’s winter.
And the thing that defeats it isn’t firepower.

It’s ordinary people choosing kindness.

In this true World War II story, you’ll witness how a bureaucratic mistake nearly turns a POW camp into a freezer—and how locals from small Wisconsin towns decide they cannot watch 200 enemy women freeze to death. Churches donate scarves, coats, socks, mittens, blankets. A nurse offers hot chocolate. A widow who lost her son at Normandy arrives anyway—because she refuses to become the cruelty he died fighting.

And then, an unexpected teacher appears: Samuel Redcloud, a Ho-Chunk elder who understands winter like a language. He doesn’t talk about politics. He teaches them how to breathe, how to layer, how to protect feet, how to survive storms—because cold doesn’t care what flag you fought for.

When the worst storm in 50 years hits, everything they’ve learned is tested.
And when it ends, they discover something even more unbelievable:

The locals come back anyway—through the snow—with soup and bread and firewood.

They arrived as enemies.
They left carrying scarves, letters, and a truth they were never trained to accept:

Humanity can survive war.

If you watch to the end, you’ll see the long echo of that winter—letters crossing the Atlantic, care packages sent to defeated Germany, and former prisoners returning decades later to stand at the same kitchen tables where they once ate as “the enemy.”

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Question for you:
If you saw “the enemy” freezing in front of you—would you help?

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