Why This German POW Spent 40 Years in Hiding After WW2
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Discover what happened to 371,000 German POWs held in America after WW2, including the incredible story of Georg Gaertner, the escaped prisoner of war who hid for 40 years before becoming the last German POW to surrender in 1985. 📖 Free WW2 reading list — my 30 essential books on the war and what came after. Get the PDF here: https://history-inside-8s3dsc.subscribepage.io/ 🎖️ Subscribe to History Inside → https://bit.ly/sub2HI Research & script by Jordy Faijdherbe Narration by Benjamin Pemberton Chapters 00:00 Arrival 03:21 Executions 06:11 Repatriation 08:50 Legacy 📚 Primary sources - UPI Archives — Last Nazi POW Surrenders After 40 Years (September 1985) - National Archives — Records of German POW Trials (1943-1945) - National Park Service — World War II Prisoner of War Camps Documentation 📚 Secondary & critical sources - Ron Robin - The Barbed-Wire College: Reeducating German POWs in America (2003) - Arnold Krammer - Nazi Prisoners of War in America (1979) Questions abou
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