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either very young or were older men. “In my job as stockade commander I would go with Mr. Miller to visit the farms where the prisoners were working to find out any problems, and we heard nothing but praise.”
Lindstrom had nothing but praise for one prisoner who was a chef at the officers’ club. “He had been a cook on a German luxury liner, and he fixed the most wonderful meals,” Lindstrom said. Lindstrom also remembers other prisoners and the stories they told about how they were captured.
“We had a young boy who worked as an orderly, and I asked him about his army career,’’.said Lindstrom. The boy told him that he had been drafted into the German army and had had six weeks of basic training before being sent to the front. “He said that when he found out that he was fighting Americans he ran as fast as he could to surrender,” Lindstrom said.
There was another prisoner who Lindstrom said was an “educated Austrian who was studying to be a doctor when he was inducted into the German air force.” He was stationed in Norway, and he and four other Austrians were assigned to the same plane. One day they were to take part in a raid, and they followed the formation until they were well away from their base airfield.
The prisoner told Lindstrom that then his crew faked a problem with the plane, dropped out of formation and headed out over the North Sea in an attempt to get to Iceland and Americans. The plane ran out of gas before they could reach Iceland, they set the plane down near a British ship and they were picked up.
After the t f oner w ./ik u to Germany, he kept in touch with Lindstrom. “He felt that he had been treated so well by Americans, but his brother had been captured by the Russians,” Lindstrom said. “His brother was released three years after he was, and he wrote to me about how badly his brother had been treated while a Russian prisoner."
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