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May 1944 Camp Algona, Iowa. German POWs step off a train expecting punishment and find Texas farmers speaking fluent German. From Algona to Camp Hearne, Fredericksburg and New Braunfels, this film follows one work detail through cotton rows, bilingual church services, and Geneva-rule scrip to a storm-saved harvest that quietly broke Nazi propaganda.

We show how America’s German-American heartland mixed POW farm labor with abundance: breakfast tables, tractors, letters home, re-education reels, VE-Day goodbyes and how these encounters later fed West Germany’s recovery.

Topics: Camp Algona • Camp Hearne • Texas German communities • POW agricultural labor • Geneva Convention scrip • John Deere combine & yields • church & letters • re-education • VE-Day/aftermath

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