My brother's father in law was a prisoner of war for 10 years.

[Swede]

That is how my sister-inlaw came to be (1956). He just walked through the door one day. My nieces and nephews don't understand what a horrible world it is. Oh he was in the Luftwaffe.

[shance]

1. Pretty amazing how profiteers pit nations against one another for gain.

Isnt it?

Even sadder that people will die in a war when they may believe its patriotism, when in reality it's only to line the rich man's pocket.

[knowbody0]

2. hey swede

my parents had all 7 of us kids sit thru a film about torturing and executing jews. i never recovered from that experience. humanity!

[Spider Jerusalem]

3. 10 years?

He must've been captured on the Eastern Front if he was a prisoner for that long...and something tells me that ten years in a Soviet POW camp was probably NOT a very pleasant experience.

[Swede]

5. He was captured in Stalingrad.

He got home in 1956,I do not know how he survivied. He said once that he ate coal. Coal.

[bobbieinok]

4. in 62 met a German family; father had been POW in Russia

they had 2 older kids, born ca 41,43 and then much younger child, born after the father returned.....they claimed there were many German families with this child-age pattern