05-24-2008, 08:08 PM
POW's were the bane of the dogfaces life. Fianlly with the mass surrendering in Germany mostly we just disarmed them if weapons showed and motioned them back to "our lines?". God only knows who finally kept them. We just couldnt spare the manpower to keep or guard them. As it was, our "supposed Div
figure" of 15,000 men was down to the 12,000 mark from lack of replacements. When you are down 20 percent you are starting to be a hurting puppy. I guess many Krauts were dissapointed in not being captured immediately on surrendering but hopefully they finally found some people to take them in.
Actually just what does a company of maybe 180 people do with 100 surrendering Krauts at a time when one has a objective to take and must move on?