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<p>[QUOTE="silentnviolent, post: 1484840, member: 8797"]I read a great novel about this called <u>BREAKOUT!</u> the original release of this novel was titled <u>The Eagle and the Iron Cross</u> about a pair of German soldiers who escaped a POW camp in Arizona. Conscripted into the Wehrmacht, they were reluctant soldiers to begin with. Determined to not return to post-war Germany, the escape was planned so that they may begin anew as Americans. Enamoured as they were with Karl May's stories of the Wild West, as most Germans were at that time, they are taken in by a very poor tribe of native americans and hidden from vigilante locals who sought to make up for being too old to fight the war by torturing and killing escapees. One of members of their small sanctuary had just returned home after serving as a Code Talker and tensions run high...</p><p><br /></p><p>I recommend it to anyone interested in the subject and though it does not pertain to Japanese internment camps it does reflect the attitudes of the time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="silentnviolent, post: 1484840, member: 8797"]I read a great novel about this called [U]BREAKOUT![/U] the original release of this novel was titled [U]The Eagle and the Iron Cross[/U] about a pair of German soldiers who escaped a POW camp in Arizona. Conscripted into the Wehrmacht, they were reluctant soldiers to begin with. Determined to not return to post-war Germany, the escape was planned so that they may begin anew as Americans. Enamoured as they were with Karl May's stories of the Wild West, as most Germans were at that time, they are taken in by a very poor tribe of native americans and hidden from vigilante locals who sought to make up for being too old to fight the war by torturing and killing escapees. One of members of their small sanctuary had just returned home after serving as a Code Talker and tensions run high... I recommend it to anyone interested in the subject and though it does not pertain to Japanese internment camps it does reflect the attitudes of the time.[/QUOTE]
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