"No thanks, we're still lookin at it."

>but I'm not sure how big a threat my toddler father was to The War Effort™.

Have you ever seen what an unsupervised toddler can do?

There is a reason why we put them behind bars to this day.

We just got wiser on the barbed wire.

German POWs were treated better by the Americans than the African American soldiers.

Bertram was a brave man!

The Allies were quick to snatch up as many Nazis as they could after the war.

That's your bad for assuming redditors have competent reading skills

You were responding to a comment about POW camps though

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I listened to a whole podcast episode years ago about German POWs in the U.S., where they started being shipped when the U.K. started running out of space and resources for them. By most accounts, the POWs thought they had it pretty good. They were given paid work in factories and farms and often made friends with the locals. It seems like they were mostly just happy to be out of the war and well fed. They had camp bands, sports clubs and the like. I think most of them were just poor kids who had been conscripted; the actual Nazi ideologues were held in much more secure prisons.

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What camp are you talking about? I don’t know of any that mixed POWs with non military internment

I wouldn't say fiat is worthless. It doesn't have use value or any intrinsic value but it still has accepted value.

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Something similar happened to many Romani people after the Nazis were defeated

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/roma-holocaust

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My grandfather was interned and then got out of the camps into 'the kings most loyal enemy aliens' which was the pioneer corp.

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/us/14nazis.html

Then America gave Nazi's a safe haven lbs

Ironically, German POWs detained in England lived in pretty good conditions, and only one ever escaped. In some places, they were allowed out daily on the honor system to work in villages and on farms

Because they are not silver and therefore worthless as all fiat money is.

Didn't know that when I wrote it, but thanks for the info! I did think that but I just haven't spent time researching coins and their usage or value through history.

Honestly haven't spent much time analysing coins and how money worked throughout history, dont have the time for it at all, but thank for the info!

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This will give a real boost to their Tourism score if they put it in a museum. Well on their way to a nice culture victory.

Does anybody know if Holger Eckhertz's book, D-Day Through German Eyes has ever been properly vetted? Has the Bundesarchiv acknowledged either Eckhertz or his father? I know that some folks at r/AskHistory have commented about this book, but has anything been resolved?

My grandparents and father were interned in one of these camps (not sure if in this specific one). I don't know how well known it is, I never saw any discussion about it and only heard about it in family stories.

On the one hand it's understandable that the British were suspicious of German nationals, but I'm not sure how big a threat my toddler father was to The War Effort™.