Before the German POW camp was built just west of Greeley we had Italian POW's who were house in an old school in Greeley. They worked sugar beets at our farm also. I do not know what happened to the Italian POW's but a year or two lter they were go and we used the German POW's. We were assigned the same group of Italian POW's every day all summer. We got to know them quite well. However we were assigned a different group of German POW's almost every day. Dad said he was told by the army that they did not want us to develop a close relationship with any of the individual German POW's. I still have letters that were received from both Italian and German POW's after the war and they went back home. Ron Greenwald --- Original Message ----- From: Charles Parcels<mailto:volgager4440@yahoo.com> To: ger-volga@rootsweb.com<mailto:ger-volga@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 10:51 AM Subject: [GV] German P.O.W's. U.S. farmers helped make the German P.O.W's lives more bareable, because of one thing, COMPASSION Had they been Italian P.O.W's., they would have been treated the same way. Sadly, in today's world we no longer posess, nor practice this precious gift . " A gentile man with a beard tried to teach us this over 2000 years ago, but unfortunatly it is not being practiced much any more. " My father gave a cigarette to a Japanese prisoner on the island of Saipan during w.w.2, & was ostracized by his fellow Marines for it. This act , to me, is what really seperates the men from the boys ! Charles Parcels < Weibert aus Messer > --------------------------------- Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GER-VOLGA-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:GER-VOLGA-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message