Reporter herald Loveland, Colorado Publish date: 7/11/2007 ChristinaSCHLEIGER , 98, of Berthoud, Colo., died July 10, 2007, at McKee Hospice Center in Loveland. She was born June 24, 1909, in Norka, Russia, to John and Elizabeth Rothermel Kaiser. At age 4, she came to the United States with her parents. She married John Schleiger Jr. on May 4, 1929, in Loveland. He preceded her in death on Oct. 27, 1988. She and her husband farmed east of Berthoud most of their married life and spent their retirement living in Berthoud. Most of her life was spent living in and around Berthoud. She is survived by two sons, Robert Schleiger and wife Arlis of Loveland, and Kenneth Schleiger and wife Virginia of Berthoud. Five grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren, and a son-in-law, Max Schaal of Berthoud. Sisters, Pauline Sterkel of Berthoud, Leona Hutton and Lorene Hartung, both of Portland, Ore. She was preceded in death by her parents, a daughter, Marjorie Schaal, and two brothers, Adam and George Kaiser. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Friday, First United Methodist Church of Berthoud, with Rev. Stephanie Munoz officiating. Viewing will be held one hour prior to services at the church. Burial will be in Greenlawn Cemetery in Berthoud. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Larimer County in care of Viegut Funeral Home.

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I would also like to receive the compilation of stories. Thank you so much for doing this! Dian ddroth@charter.net -----Original Message----- From: ger-volga-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ger-volga-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of ger-volga-request@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 6:21 PM To: ger-volga@rootsweb.com Subject: GER-VOLGA Digest, Vol 2, Issue 198 Today's Topics: 1. Re: German POWs in WWII (GVLESS@aol.com) 2. Compilation of stories about POWs (Carla Wills-Brandon) 3. POW stories (PKoe662885@aol.com) 4. Re: POW stories (gpmartens@sbcglobal.net) 5. Re: POW stories (Charles Parcels) 6. Pytagosk, Russia (Joel Davies) 7. Pyatigorsk, Russia (Joel Davies) 8. FW: Compilation of stories about POWs (Shauna) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:30:56 EDT From: GVLESS@aol.com Subject: Re: [GV] German POWs in WWII To: ger-volga@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <cdd.160cadd1.33c689f0@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Just thought you all ought to know that there are many websites on this subject on the internet. I just checked and and found 10 pages of listings. Now maybe one of you readers here can make sure our stories of the GRs that befriended the prisoners etc. can find a way to have a compilation of the GR stories available on the internet. I will look forward to a compilation of this in the AHSGR Journal or wherever it goes. Some years ago I was in correspondence by e-mail to someone who was working on compiling all the locations of the German POW camps in the USA and was trying to set up some sort of archive with names as well so that this could be accessed by the computer. This person even had some special exhibits set for use at various "fairs" around the U.S. Has anyone seen such?? For some reason I can not locate in my many files this source since having moved to a retirement home this past year. This subject does make a very interesting story and should be out there for others to know about. Especially how our own people, the GRs, were helpful to these prisoners. Thank you all for sharing at this time. Virginia Less ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:20:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Carla Wills-Brandon <drsbrandon@sbcglobal.net> Subject: [GV] Compilation of stories about POWs To: GER-VOLGA-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <455638.42037.qm@web81212.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 And me! Carla J Welch <jwelch3@verizon.net> wrote: I would also like to receive it too. Thanks jwelch3@verizon.net > > Marvin, > > Please add me to the list! > > Thanks! > > -- > > Kevin Rupp > 2301 Canal Blvd > Hays, Ks. 67601 > krupp@ruraltel.net > www.volgagerman.net > volgagerman@ruraltel.net > Sunflower Chapter > > > > > > > >> From: Thelma Mills >> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:39:15 -0700 >> To: >> Cc: >> Subject: Re: [GV] Compilation of stories about POWs >> >> I also would like a copy - and thank you so much for gathering these >> stories. Thelma Mills >> >> On 7/11/07, Larry Miller wrote: >>> >>> Hello Marvin. >>> >>> Please add me to the list of folks to receive your compilation of >>> stories >>> shared about German POWs. And thanks for doing it! >>> >>> Larry Miller / Spearfish, SD >>> dakotamillers@rushmore.com >>> www.galeymiller.org >>> www.blackhillsmonitor.blogspot.com >>> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~unterdorf/index.html >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> >>> Message: 4 >>> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:13:47 -0400 >>> From: Marven C Weitzel >>> Subject: Re: [GV] POW's >>> To: Okieraven@aol.com >>> Cc: ger-volga@rootsweb.com >>> Message-ID: <20070710.141347.1724.0.marvenw@juno.com> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >>> >>> I am an editor and have been compiling these letters in a desktop >>> publisher. When I finish, I'll be glad to forward you a copy in a >>> format >>> you can use. >>> >>> Marven Weitzel >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> GER-VOLGA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> http://www.mariental-louis.com/ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> GER-VOLGA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GER-VOLGA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.2/894 - Release Date: 7/10/2007 > 5:44 PM > > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GER-VOLGA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Carla Wills-Brandon, Ph.D. www.carlawillsbrandon.com Death is just a bus stop before the next trip! ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:21:50 EDT From: PKoe662885@aol.com Subject: [GV] POW stories To: GER-VOLGA@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <bff.1b31c330.33c695de@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" I was the one who started the POW stories and I'm glad it took such interest. Yes Marvin, please put me on your list of compilation of stories about POW'S. My next question, I didn't hear from anyone in California. Did California have German POW"S ??? We had at least two camps here in the fruit country of Berrien County, Michigan. The Benton Harbor Armory and a camp at the end of Oxbow Road in Sodus, Michigan. Paul Koehler Village Coordinator for Stahl am Tarlyk and Bangert. 1468 St Joseph Circle St Joseph, MI 49085 ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:42:54 -0500 From: gpmartens@sbcglobal.net Subject: Re: [GV] POW stories To: ger-volga@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <4694FA7E.29674.4EFD959@gpmartens.sbcglobal.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Found this information: "Smithsonian" magazine of June 1995; pages 126-143; titled: "By Convention, the enemy within never did without." During W.W.II, 375,000 German prisoners of war lived so well in US POW camps that thousands migrated back to become citizens. Also referenced in this article are these: "Nazi Prisoners of War in America" by Arnold Krammer, Stein and Day [Briarcliff Manor, New York], 1979. "Hitler's Last Soldier in America" by Georg Gaertner, Stein and Day, 1985. "Stalag: U.S.A." by Judith M. Gansberg, Thomas Y. Crowell [New York], 1977. "Prisoners of War" by Ronald H. Bailey, W.W.II series [Vol. 30], Time-Life Books [Alexandria, Virginia], 1981. "The Faustball Tunnel" by John Hammond Moore, Random House, 1978. Any of these can probably be gotten through your local public library. The German prisoners held at many of the central Plain's States POW camps were much appreciated for their vital labor while on work details to help with seeding, haying, harvesting in the area. Many POW work details were so trusted that guards were few. However, military service training expects any soldier captured will make every effort to escape and return to their country's service. The above: "Faustball Tunnel" article relates the German POWs (in Arizona, I believe) and their great tunneling & engineering efforts to escape. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Camp Concordia,German POW's in the MidWest, by Lowell A. May, Published September 1985 Camp Concordia in Wilkipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Concordia Camp Concordia: http://www.kansasphototour.com/concordia.htm ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:30:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Charles Parcels <volgager4440@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [GV] POW stories To: PKoe662885@aol.com Cc: ger-volga@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <415391.97332.qm@web62302.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 With all due respect, I was the one who started it going. C.P PKoe662885@aol.com wrote: I was the one who started the POW stories and I'm glad it took such interest. Yes Marvin, please put me on your list of compilation of stories about POW'S. My next question, I didn't hear from anyone in California. Did California have German POW"S ??? We had at least two camps here in the fruit country of Berrien County, Michigan. The Benton Harbor Armory and a camp at the end of Oxbow Road in Sodus, Michigan. Paul Koehler Village Coordinator for Stahl am Tarlyk and Bangert. 1468 St Joseph Circle St Joseph, MI 49085 ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GER-VOLGA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --------------------------------- Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:19:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Joel Davies <daviesodetojoy@verizon.net> Subject: [GV] Pytagosk, Russia To: ger-volga@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <572754.36799.qm@web84112.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hi! \ Anyone have any information on Pytagosk, Russia? My relatives (at least 2 generations) were from this area of Russia. Their surnames were Schwindt and Keckler. Jeanne Davies daviesodetojoy@verizon.net ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:23:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Joel Davies <daviesodetojoy@verizon.net> Subject: [GV] Pyatigorsk, Russia To: ger-volga@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <273736.64527.qm@web84104.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I am looking for any information on Pyatigorsk, Russia. My relatives came from that area of Russia. Their surnames are Schwindt and Kechler. Thanks! Jeanne Davies daviesodetojoy@verizon.net ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:20:45 -0500 From: "Shauna" <shauna@libsack.com> Subject: [GV] FW: Compilation of stories about POWs To: <GER-VOLGA-L@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <031501c7c41a$7fefbc40$6401a8c0@F52F2867C1364CC> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Marvin, Please include me in your distribution list as well. Many thanks! Shauna Libsack shauna@libsack.com -----Original Message----- From: ger-volga-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ger-volga-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Rosemary Larson Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 12:03 PM To: GER-VOLGA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [GV] Compilation of stories about POWs Hi Marven,, I would like receiving the compilation also. This is great for you to do this. Thanks so much, Rosemary Larson larso260@tc.umn.edu ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Miller" <dakotamillers@rushmore.com> To: <ger-volga@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 11:30 AM Subject: [GV] Compilation of stories about POWs Hello Marvin. Please add me to the list of folks to receive your compilation of stories shared about German POWs. And thanks for doing it! Larry Miller / Spearfish, SD dakotamillers@rushmore.com www.galeymiller.org www.blackhillsmonitor.blogspot.com http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~unterdorf/index.html -----Original Message----- Message: 4 Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:13:47 -0400 From: Marven C Weitzel <marvenw@juno.com> Subject: Re: [GV] POW's To: Okieraven@aol.com Cc: ger-volga@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20070710.141347.1724.0.marvenw@juno.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I am an editor and have been compiling these letters in a desktop publisher. When I finish, I'll be glad to forward you a copy in a format you can use. 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Please add me, too! Marvin, if you need help with editing, just let me know how I can help. German POWS were also in Arizona. Here are two links which describe their "activities" here. http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2004/12/wwii_great_pow_.html http://home.arcor.de/kriegsgefangene/usa/camps_usa/papago_park.html Anna Bartkowski -----Original Message----- From: ger-volga-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ger-volga-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Carla Wills-Brandon Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 12:20 PM To: GER-VOLGA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [GV] Compilation of stories about POWs And me! Carla J Welch <jwelch3@verizon.net> wrote: I would also like to receive it too. Thanks jwelch3@verizon.net > > Marvin, > > Please add me to the list! > > Thanks! > > -- > > Kevin Rupp > 2301 Canal Blvd > Hays, Ks. 67601 > krupp@ruraltel.net > www.volgagerman.net > volgagerman@ruraltel.net > Sunflower Chapter > > > > > > > >> From: Thelma Mills >> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:39:15 -0700 >> To: >> Cc: >> Subject: Re: [GV] Compilation of stories about POWs >> >> I also would like a copy - and thank you so much for gathering these >> stories. Thelma Mills >> >> On 7/11/07, Larry Miller wrote: >>> >>> Hello Marvin. >>> >>> Please add me to the list of folks to receive your compilation of >>> stories >>> shared about German POWs. And thanks for doing it! >>> >>> Larry Miller / Spearfish, SD >>> dakotamillers@rushmore.com >>> www.galeymiller.org >>> www.blackhillsmonitor.blogspot.com >>> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~unterdorf/index.html >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> >>> Message: 4 >>> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:13:47 -0400 >>> From: Marven C Weitzel >>> Subject: Re: [GV] POW's >>> To: Okieraven@aol.com >>> Cc: ger-volga@rootsweb.com >>> Message-ID: <20070710.141347.1724.0.marvenw@juno.com> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >>> >>> I am an editor and have been compiling these letters in a desktop >>> publisher. When I finish, I'll be glad to forward you a copy in a >>> format >>> you can use. >>> >>> Marven Weitzel >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> GER-VOLGA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> http://www.mariental-louis.com/ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> GER-VOLGA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GER-VOLGA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.2/894 - Release Date: 7/10/2007 > 5:44 PM > > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GER-VOLGA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Carla Wills-Brandon, Ph.D. www.carlawillsbrandon.com Death is just a bus stop before the next trip! ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GER-VOLGA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Marvin, Please include me in your distribution list as well. Many thanks! Shauna Libsack shauna@libsack.com -----Original Message----- From: ger-volga-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ger-volga-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Rosemary Larson Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 12:03 PM To: GER-VOLGA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [GV] Compilation of stories about POWs Hi Marven,, I would like receiving the compilation also. This is great for you to do this. Thanks so much, Rosemary Larson larso260@tc.umn.edu ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Miller" <dakotamillers@rushmore.com> To: <ger-volga@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 11:30 AM Subject: [GV] Compilation of stories about POWs Hello Marvin. Please add me to the list of folks to receive your compilation of stories shared about German POWs. And thanks for doing it! Larry Miller / Spearfish, SD dakotamillers@rushmore.com www.galeymiller.org www.blackhillsmonitor.blogspot.com http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~unterdorf/index.html -----Original Message----- Message: 4 Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:13:47 -0400 From: Marven C Weitzel <marvenw@juno.com> Subject: Re: [GV] POW's To: Okieraven@aol.com Cc: ger-volga@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20070710.141347.1724.0.marvenw@juno.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I am an editor and have been compiling these letters in a desktop publisher. When I finish, I'll be glad to forward you a copy in a format you can use. Marven Weitzel ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GER-VOLGA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GER-VOLGA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi, Paul and all, My husband used to work at March Air Force Base (formerly March Air Field) in Moreno Valley, CA. He says there was a prisoner of war camp there during WWII. It held mostly Italian prisoners, but some German prisoners also. He says he remembers seeing some pictures at the March Air Base Museum. He also says there was a dilapidated building left and there had been some talk of an archealogical dig. If someone lives close to Riverside/Moreno Valley, maybe they could check on this for us. Karen Albright Eureka, CA Grandfather's last name: Harras from Stahl (changed to Harris at Ellis Island) other relatives from Neu Schilling

Ditto on distribution list. Elaine/Michael

I was the one who started the POW stories and I'm glad it took such interest. Yes Marvin, please put me on your list of compilation of stories about POW'S. My next question, I didn't hear from anyone in California. Did California have German POW"S ??? We had at least two camps here in the fruit country of Berrien County, Michigan. The Benton Harbor Armory and a camp at the end of Oxbow Road in Sodus, Michigan. Paul Koehler Village Coordinator for Stahl am Tarlyk and Bangert. 1468 St Joseph Circle St Joseph, MI 49085 ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

Found this information: "Smithsonian" magazine of June 1995; pages 126-143; titled: "By Convention, the enemy within never did without." During W.W.II, 375,000 German prisoners of war lived so well in US POW camps that thousands migrated back to become citizens. Also referenced in this article are these: "Nazi Prisoners of War in America" by Arnold Krammer, Stein and Day [Briarcliff Manor, New York], 1979. "Hitler's Last Soldier in America" by Georg Gaertner, Stein and Day, 1985. "Stalag: U.S.A." by Judith M. Gansberg, Thomas Y. Crowell [New York], 1977. "Prisoners of War" by Ronald H. Bailey, W.W.II series [Vol. 30], Time-Life Books [Alexandria, Virginia], 1981. "The Faustball Tunnel" by John Hammond Moore, Random House, 1978. Any of these can probably be gotten through your local public library. The German prisoners held at many of the central Plain's States POW camps were much appreciated for their vital labor while on work details to help with seeding, haying, harvesting in the area. Many POW work details were so trusted that guards were few. However, military service training expects any soldier captured will make every effort to escape and return to their country's service. The above: "Faustball Tunnel" article relates the German POWs (in Arizona, I believe) and their great tunneling & engineering efforts to escape. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Camp Concordia,German POW's in the MidWest, by Lowell A. May, Published September 1985 Camp Concordia in Wilkipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Concordia Camp Concordia: http://www.kansasphototour.com/concordia.htm

Just thought you all ought to know that there are many websites on this subject on the internet. I just checked and and found 10 pages of listings. Now maybe one of you readers here can make sure our stories of the GRs that befriended the prisoners etc. can find a way to have a compilation of the GR stories available on the internet. I will look forward to a compilation of this in the AHSGR Journal or wherever it goes. Some years ago I was in correspondence by e-mail to someone who was working on compiling all the locations of the German POW camps in the USA and was trying to set up some sort of archive with names as well so that this could be accessed by the computer. This person even had some special exhibits set for use at various "fairs" around the U.S. Has anyone seen such?? For some reason I can not locate in my many files this source since having moved to a retirement home this past year. This subject does make a very interesting story and should be out there for others to know about. Especially how our own people, the GRs, were helpful to these prisoners. Thank you all for sharing at this time. Virginia Less ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

I am looking for any information on Pyatigorsk, Russia. My relatives came from that area of Russia. Their surnames are Schwindt and Kechler. Thanks! Jeanne Davies daviesodetojoy@verizon.net

Hi! \ Anyone have any information on Pytagosk, Russia? My relatives (at least 2 generations) were from this area of Russia. Their surnames were Schwindt and Keckler. Jeanne Davies daviesodetojoy@verizon.net

With all due respect, I was the one who started it going. C.P PKoe662885@aol.com wrote: I was the one who started the POW stories and I'm glad it took such interest. Yes Marvin, please put me on your list of compilation of stories about POW'S. My next question, I didn't hear from anyone in California. Did California have German POW"S ??? We had at least two camps here in the fruit country of Berrien County, Michigan. The Benton Harbor Armory and a camp at the end of Oxbow Road in Sodus, Michigan. Paul Koehler Village Coordinator for Stahl am Tarlyk and Bangert. 1468 St Joseph Circle St Joseph, MI 49085 ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GER-VOLGA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --------------------------------- Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta.

Marvin, Would you, please, include me in your e-mail list on the compilation of stories about POW's. My Mom grew up on a small farm outside of Bayard, Nebraska, and has told bits and pieces of stories about POW's. I am going to have to go back to her and get more of the details. My Grandmother spoke German and occasionally told of prisoners or gangsers showing up at the farm. She was born in Russia (of German descent), and was one of those that did not want any one to know, so she kept a whole lot of things to herself. She did not want other people knowing that she could converse with the prisoners, when they came. Things like that, so those stories were not even told to us grandkids. When she died, her obit said she was born in Wisconsin, and when her children got to her papers, everything was gone. They believe she had burned everything. But I am trying to piece together her family's past and travelings, and the stories of the POWs really give a person a lot more incentive to keep going!! Thank you!! E-mail to: _Suz11@bresnan.net_ ger-volga-request@rootsweb.com wrote: Today's Topics: 1. German POWs (Dick Schmidt) 2. Re: German POW's (Lauren Brantner) 3. Re: German POW's (Henry L. Schmick) 4. Re: POW Links (d.hoffman) 5. Obit, Anna Mary (Gross) Hergett (Henry L. Schmick) 6. Compilation of stories about POWs (Larry Miller) 7. Re: Compilation of stories about POWs (Rosemary Larson) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:52:17 -0400 From: "Dick Schmidt" <44schmidt@earthlink.net> Subject: [GV] German POWs To: <GER-VOLGA-L@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <00b301c7c3b1$ee6b8500$6400a8c0@yoursz6x6sefxo> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original In Michigan there was a group of POWs kept in a camp near Croswell. My grandfather grew peas and the German POWs worked in the pea vinery, where they brought in the freshly cut pea vines which were then podded mechanically. They lugged boxes of fresh peas and worked on the stack for the used pea vines. My dad could speak German and talked with them nearly every load we took there. They were very happy to be here and not being shot at. They remarked that they had good food and most people treated them with respect. There were a couple narrow minded people who thought my dad shouldn't talk to them. I was probably only 8 or 9 years old but can remember them smiling and happy when my dad was talking to them. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 06:30:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Lauren Brantner <lrbrantner@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [GV] German POW's To: ger-volga@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <385747.63460.qm@web58815.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I grew up near Wiggins, Colorado on a farm and my father had German war prisoners working on our farm also. They were housed in barracks right off of then highway 6 in the middle of our small town. A Rocky Mountain News columnist, Mike Rudeen in his column "Ask" today had replies to a reader request asking where these prisoners were kept. Answers popped up all over the State of Colorado. The prisoners were kept all over the state from 1944 to 1946 and worked on farms in the eastern part of the state as well as in the Grand Valley on our western slope where the fruit industry is located. This reader indicated that the troublemakers had been weeded out and that security was light and that many returned to visit Colorado after the war. One reader who responded worked at a POW camp at Camp Hale. Camp Hale was the home of the elite 10th Mountain Division which formed & trained in Colorado mountains. This is not farm or orchard country - so I don't what that particular group was about. One responder spoke of a young POW who sang Silent Night in a stunning tenor "with such passion that it brought tears to people's eyes" in a midnight mass in Fraser, Colorado. Another person spoke of a POW who saved his mother from rattlesnake bite on the eastern plains near Sterling, Colorado. Another spoke of feeding the prisoners. For more memories go to the Ask!blog at blogs.RockyMountainNews.com/denver/ask. There is one prisoner who returned after WWII to marry the farmer's daughter near Windsor, Colorado. Lauren Brantner --------------------------------- Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:23:33 -0600 From: "Henry L. Schmick" <hschmick@wavecom.net> Subject: Re: [GV] German POW's To: "Lauren Brantner" <lrbrantner@yahoo.com>, <ger-volga@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <001401c7c3c7$1095a7e0$0400000a@DeskTop> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original I grew up near Torrington, Wyoming on a sugar beet farm. We got our German POWs from the Camp at Veteran, WY. Dad would drive our truck with a slide-in A-Frame to Veteran to pick them up each morning, the guard would ride up front with Dad. The A-Frame kept them out of the weather. The route to the camp was along a large irrigation canal, one of our neighbors, drove off into the canal and one or two POWs drowned in the strong undertow. They would bring their food in large pots, Mom would heat their food and give them a couple of loafs of home made bread. They would give us candy bars and cigarettes (my uncle smoked). The guard would eat with us. While the POWs were working, the guard would sleep in a haystack. We had a lot of rabbits in our pasture, on one occasion the POWs borrowed the guards M-1 Carbine and shot a couple of rabbits which they took back to the camp and ate. My Dad, Grandpa & Uncle spoke German well. The POWs were amazed that we had such small farm houses and such large fields. In Goshen County, we had camps at Lingle, Torrington, & Veteran. Henry L. Schmick ________________________________________________________________ Keep unwanted email out. Visit www.spamsubtract.com for more information. ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:31:33 -0600 From: "d.hoffman" <d.hoffman@bresnan.net> Subject: Re: [GV] POW Links To: "Allan R. Lenhardt" <arl@imt.net>, <GER-VOLGA-L@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <006501c7c3c8$2dfa91a0$6501a8c0@your4xjk98n3xg> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Did a quick search for German POWs in Montana and found this link to the Montana Magazine of Western History from the Montana Historical Society which has the article on line. You can read the entire story entitled, "Unlikely Harvest" at---- http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3951/is_200010/ai_n8903727/pg_1 Don in Montana City ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:48:24 -0600 From: "Henry L. Schmick" <hschmick@wavecom.net> Subject: [GV] Obit, Anna Mary (Gross) Hergett To: "GR-LIST" <GR-GENEALOGY@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU>, "GR-VOLGA" <GER-VOLGA-L@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <002501c7c3ca$894c7d50$0400000a@DeskTop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Billings Gazette Billings, MT 11 Jul 2007 LAUREL - Anna Mary (Gross) Hergett died Monday, July 10, 2007, at St. Vincent Hospital, Billings. Anna was born in Edgar on March 5, 1915, to George Gross Sr. and Sara (Herman) Gross. She was the youngest child in a family of six children. Anna married Richard Hergett on March 3, 1935, in Park City. Anna was a homemaker and her husband, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren were very important to her. She was an excellent cook and the family enjoyed her fried chicken, apple strudel and apple pies. She was a very organized person and everything was in its place. She thoroughly enjoyed taking pictures and placing them in her many photo albums. Some of her favorite times were when she and Richard went fishing and camping and she caught "The Biggest Fish!" Anna was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church. Anna is survived by her husband, Richard, of 72 years; her four children, Betty (Henry) Lich, Laurel, Joanne (Richard) Nauman, Park City, Janice (Robert) Armstrong, Libby, and Gerald (Sharon) Hergett, Laurel. She is survived by 11 grandchildren, LaRay Mears, Alan (Dana) Lich, Wanda (Jason) Richardson, Rich (Shelly) Nauman, Russ (Robbin) Nauman, Rod (Valerie) Nauman, Alison (Terry) Jacobs, Bill (Robin) Armstrong Jr., Guy (Jan) Armstrong, Gregg Hergett and Garry (Lisa) Hergett. Anna is also survived by 29 great-grandchildren, Stephanie (Loren) Schrag, Amanda Mears, Randi and Sydney Lich, Lindsay, Courtney, Ashley and Jeffrey Richardson, Cal and Megan Nauman, Whitney and Chad Nauman, Alyssa, Shane and Daniel Nauman, Mitchell, Rebecca, Marshall and Benjamin Jacobs, Danielle, Michael and Taylor Armstrong, Amybeth, Courtney, Brant, and Chase Armstrong; Jarred, Brandon and Carly Hergett. Anna was preceded in death by her parents; sisters Sara, Annie and Katherine; and brothers, Mike and George Jr. Rest in peace, our loved one, we love you and will miss you. Funeral services for Anna Mary (Gross) Hergett, 92, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, July 12, at St. John's Lutheran Church, 417 W. Ninth St., Laurel. Memorials may be made to St. John's Lutheran Church, PO Box 185, Laurel, MT 59044. Interment will be in the Laurel Cemetery. Casket bearers will be her eight grandsons, Alan Lich, Richard Nauman, Jr., Russell Nauman, Rodney Nauman, Robert Armstrong, Jr., Guy Armstrong, Greggory Hergett, Garry Hergett and honorary casket bearers will be Loren Schrag and Jason Richardson. Smith Funeral Chapel-Laurel was in charge of arrangements. ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:30:01 -0600 From: "Larry Miller" <dakotamillers@rushmore.com> Subject: [GV] Compilation of stories about POWs To: <ger-volga@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <1184171418_157052@smtp3.iw.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello Marvin. Please add me to the list of folks to receive your compilation of stories shared about German POWs. And thanks for doing it! Larry Miller / Spearfish, SD dakotamillers@rushmore.com www.galeymiller.org www.blackhillsmonitor.blogspot.com http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~unterdorf/index.html -----Original Message----- Message: 4 Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:13:47 -0400 From: Marven C Weitzel <marvenw@juno.com> Subject: Re: [GV] POW's To: Okieraven@aol.com Cc: ger-volga@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20070710.141347.1724.0.marvenw@juno.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I am an editor and have been compiling these letters in a desktop publisher. When I finish, I'll be glad to forward you a copy in a format you can use. Marven Weitzel ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:03:13 -0500 From: "Rosemary Larson" <larso260@tc.umn.edu> Subject: Re: [GV] Compilation of stories about POWs To: <GER-VOLGA-L@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <00a401c7c3dd$7e5fe130$6700a8ac@DHQ0CHB1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi Marven,, I would like receiving the compilation also. This is great for you to do this. Thanks so much, Rosemary Larson larso260@tc.umn.edu ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Miller" <dakotamillers@rushmore.com> To: <ger-volga@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 11:30 AM Subject: [GV] Compilation of stories about POWs Hello Marvin. Please add me to the list of folks to receive your compilation of stories shared about German POWs. And thanks for doing it! Larry Miller / Spearfish, SD dakotamillers@rushmore.com www.galeymiller.org www.blackhillsmonitor.blogspot.com http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~unterdorf/index.html -----Original Message----- Message: 4 Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:13:47 -0400 From: Marven C Weitzel <marvenw@juno.com> Subject: Re: [GV] POW's To: Okieraven@aol.com Cc: ger-volga@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20070710.141347.1724.0.marvenw@juno.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I am an editor and have been compiling these letters in a desktop publisher. 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Marvin, Please add me to the list! Thanks! -- Kevin Rupp 2301 Canal Blvd Hays, Ks. 67601 krupp@ruraltel.net www.volgagerman.net volgagerman@ruraltel.net Sunflower Chapter > From: Thelma Mills <thelma.mills@gmail.com> > Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:39:15 -0700 > To: <dakotamillers@rushmore.com> > Cc: <ger-volga@rootsweb.com> > Subject: Re: [GV] Compilation of stories about POWs > > I also would like a copy - and thank you so much for gathering these > stories. Thelma Mills > > On 7/11/07, Larry Miller <dakotamillers@rushmore.com> wrote: >> >> Hello Marvin. >> >> Please add me to the list of folks to receive your compilation of stories >> shared about German POWs. And thanks for doing it! >> >> Larry Miller / Spearfish, SD >> dakotamillers@rushmore.com >> www.galeymiller.org >> www.blackhillsmonitor.blogspot.com >> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~unterdorf/index.html >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> Message: 4 >> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:13:47 -0400 >> From: Marven C Weitzel <marvenw@juno.com> >> Subject: Re: [GV] POW's >> To: Okieraven@aol.com >> Cc: ger-volga@rootsweb.com >> Message-ID: <20070710.141347.1724.0.marvenw@juno.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> >> I am an editor and have been compiling these letters in a desktop >> publisher. When I finish, I'll be glad to forward you a copy in a format >> you can use. >> >> Marven Weitzel >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> GER-VOLGA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > -- > http://www.mariental-louis.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GER-VOLGA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

And me! Carla J Welch <jwelch3@verizon.net> wrote: I would also like to receive it too. Thanks jwelch3@verizon.net > > Marvin, > > Please add me to the list! > > Thanks! > > -- > > Kevin Rupp > 2301 Canal Blvd > Hays, Ks. 67601 > krupp@ruraltel.net > www.volgagerman.net > volgagerman@ruraltel.net > Sunflower Chapter > > > > > > > >> From: Thelma Mills >> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:39:15 -0700 >> To: >> Cc: >> Subject: Re: [GV] Compilation of stories about POWs >> >> I also would like a copy - and thank you so much for gathering these >> stories. Thelma Mills >> >> On 7/11/07, Larry Miller wrote: >>> >>> Hello Marvin. >>> >>> Please add me to the list of folks to receive your compilation of >>> stories >>> shared about German POWs. And thanks for doing it! >>> >>> Larry Miller / Spearfish, SD >>> dakotamillers@rushmore.com >>> www.galeymiller.org >>> www.blackhillsmonitor.blogspot.com >>> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~unterdorf/index.html >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> >>> Message: 4 >>> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:13:47 -0400 >>> From: Marven C Weitzel >>> Subject: Re: [GV] POW's >>> To: Okieraven@aol.com >>> Cc: ger-volga@rootsweb.com >>> Message-ID: <20070710.141347.1724.0.marvenw@juno.com> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >>> >>> I am an editor and have been compiling these letters in a desktop >>> publisher. When I finish, I'll be glad to forward you a copy in a >>> format >>> you can use. >>> >>> Marven Weitzel >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> GER-VOLGA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> http://www.mariental-louis.com/ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> GER-VOLGA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GER-VOLGA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.2/894 - Release Date: 7/10/2007 > 5:44 PM > > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GER-VOLGA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Carla Wills-Brandon, Ph.D. www.carlawillsbrandon.com Death is just a bus stop before the next trip!

And me! Carla J Welch <jwelch3@verizon.net> wrote: I would also like to receive it too. Thanks jwelch3@verizon.net > > Marvin, > > Please add me to the list! > > Thanks! > > -- > > Kevin Rupp > 2301 Canal Blvd > Hays, Ks. 67601 > krupp@ruraltel.net > www.volgagerman.net > volgagerman@ruraltel.net > Sunflower Chapter > > > > > > > >> From: Thelma Mills >> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:39:15 -0700 >> To: >> Cc: >> Subject: Re: [GV] Compilation of stories about POWs >> >> I also would like a copy - and thank you so much for gathering these >> stories. Thelma Mills >> >> On 7/11/07, Larry Miller wrote: >>> >>> Hello Marvin. >>> >>> Please add me to the list of folks to receive your compilation of >>> stories >>> shared about German POWs. And thanks for doing it! >>> >>> Larry Miller / Spearfish, SD >>> dakotamillers@rushmore.com >>> www.galeymiller.org >>> www.blackhillsmonitor.blogspot.com >>> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~unterdorf/index.html >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> >>> Message: 4 >>> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:13:47 -0400 >>> From: Marven C Weitzel >>> Subject: Re: [GV] POW's >>> To: Okieraven@aol.com >>> Cc: ger-volga@rootsweb.com >>> Message-ID: <20070710.141347.1724.0.marvenw@juno.com> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >>> >>> I am an editor and have been compiling these letters in a desktop >>> publisher. When I finish, I'll be glad to forward you a copy in a >>> format >>> you can use. >>> >>> Marven Weitzel >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> GER-VOLGA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> http://www.mariental-louis.com/ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> GER-VOLGA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GER-VOLGA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.2/894 - Release Date: 7/10/2007 > 5:44 PM > > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GER-VOLGA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Carla Wills-Brandon, Ph.D. www.carlawillsbrandon.com Death is just a bus stop before the next trip!