I too remember having the prisoners working on my dad's farm in Hudson, Colorado when I was a child. An article ran in the Greeley Tribune that I found in their archives about the one of the camps where the prisoners were held. It can be found here http://greeleytribune.com/article/20050204/NEWS/102040051&SearchID=73286552519988 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marven C Weitzel" <marvenw@juno.com> To: <volgager4440@yahoo.com> Cc: <ger-volga@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 11:10 AM Subject: Re: [GV] INFO. TO ALL >I remember working with the German prisoners near Gering, Neb. I was 12 > years old and I knew enough German to communicate with them, and the > guards allowed it. In fact I told one that he was "ein dumme Esel" and > we had a snowball fight in the beet field. I asked my dad, who spoke > fluent German, why he didn't speak with them. He told that they spoke a > completely different dialect and he couldn't understand them. It wasn't > until recent years that I realized he didn't want to be associated with > them because of possible stigma. > Many of the Volga German farmers in the Gering area prepared meals for > the German prisoners. Near the end of the war, they weren't closely > guarded. They didn't have any place to go even if they did escape. > > Marven Weitzel > > On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 11:34:42 -0700 (PDT) Charles Parcels > <volgager4440@yahoo.com> writes: >> I remember my mother stating to me that when >> she visited her Volga German relatives in Colorado during the 2nd >> world war, <she, visiting from n.y. > she observed German prisoners >> working on the sugar beet farms. The Volga Germans would always try >> to talk to them on the other side of the fence, but the Guards would >> chase them away. I believe it was somewhere near Wiggins, >> Colorado. >> Thought I might share this with all of you >> "Landsmann" out there. >> >> Charles Parcels < >> Weibert aus Messer > >> >> >> --------------------------------- >> Ready for the edge of your seat? Check out tonight's top picks on >> Yahoo! TV. >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >