08-09-2005, 09:46 PM
Photo Southern France POWs: Remember this. That was the 19th German Army Most were Auslander.That had a hard time speaking German. Many were happy to be prisoner. Their collar mark was a SS but not the SS we know. Not being a German citizen they could not be in the Wehrmacht. Theywere in a specaiol branch.
In southern France, wWhen we captured a few Hungerians and one of our company cxould speak to therm they acted like he was a long lost brother.
It was really a case of them not knowing how we treated POWs mamy ate better than when they were in the German Army.