I grew up on a farm in Windsor Colorado, which we still have. There was a large German POW camp near Greeley about 7 miles away. Every morning Mom and I would take our beet truck and drive over to the camp to get a group of prisoners and a guard. They would work beets all day. They were good workers. Dad spoke Fluent German and talked to them all the time. They told Dad they were happy to be here and no longer in the war. The food they brought for lunch was not too good so many times Mom made then a large pot of soup and fresh bread which they enjoyed tremendously. After the war some came back to the States and several came out to the farm to tell us they remembered Dad talking to them and Mom making them soup and bread. Ron Ron & Lynn Greenwald 5882 Seldovia Road Fort Collins CO. 80524 (970) 484-9771 or Cell (970) 217-6091 E-mail RonFarmcr3@msn.com<mailto:RonFarmcr3@msn.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: Charles Parcels<mailto:volgager4440@yahoo.com> To: ger-volga@rootsweb.com<mailto:ger-volga@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 12:34 PM Subject: [GV] INFO. TO ALL 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<mailto:GER-VOLGA-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I have an interesting addition to these notes about German prisoners. I grew up on a farm in southern Wisconsin and we raised potatoes among other crops. German prisoners were housed nearby and we regularly picked up crews to weed potatoes and later to pick up potatoes, manually in those days. My father spoke excellent German to them and they enjoyed visiting with him. My mother also made extra food for them at noon because their meals were rather meager. When sweet corn was ripe she cooked up a large batch for them and got an unexpected reaction. They angrily announced to my father that they had been insulted by my mother since she was feeding them "pig food" and would refuse to do any more work. It took every bit of my father's skill with German and his caring attitude to convince them that the sweet corn was human food in the U.S. and was considered to be a delicacy by my mother. Just to emphasize the point, I had to sit outside with the prisoners and eat my lunch, including corn with them. I was about 12 or 13 at the time. Just as with several of the other correspondents, my father kept in touch with some of them and sent CARE packages to them after the war and several visited us in the U.S. in later years. Ward Richter -----Original Message----- From: ger-volga-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ger-volga-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of RON GREENWALD Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 8:18 AM To: ger-volga@rootsweb.com; Charles Parcels Subject: Re: [GV] INFO. TO ALL I grew up on a farm in Windsor Colorado, which we still have. There was a large German POW camp near Greeley about 7 miles away. Every morning Mom and I would take our beet truck and drive over to the camp to get a group of prisoners and a guard. They would work beets all day. They were good workers. Dad spoke Fluent German and talked to them all the time. They told Dad they were happy to be here and no longer in the war. The food they brought for lunch was not too good so many times Mom made then a large pot of soup and fresh bread which they enjoyed tremendously. After the war some came back to the States and several came out to the farm to tell us they remembered Dad talking to them and Mom making them soup and bread. Ron Ron & Lynn Greenwald 5882 Seldovia Road Fort Collins CO. 80524 (970) 484-9771 or Cell (970) 217-6091 E-mail RonFarmcr3@msn.com<mailto:RonFarmcr3@msn.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: Charles Parcels<mailto:volgager4440@yahoo.com> To: ger-volga@rootsweb.com<mailto:ger-volga@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 12:34 PM Subject: [GV] INFO. TO ALL 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<mailto: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