German POW Camp at Louisiana, Missouri-- Part 3

Local resident of Louisiana, Harry Elliott lived four blocks from the camp. he and his friends would bicycle over to it and talk with the guards and sometimes the Germans would come over and talk to them, "We could understand them a little bit."

Prisoners sent to Louisiana were considered low-risk.

Another resident, Frances Beck, remembers her parents threatening her with her life if she went near the camp. She did anyway.

There were even some complaints among locals of the Germans being "coddled." Elliott remembers working alongside them in the summer and the Germans were served "hot lunches" while "we were eating out of our lunch bucket."

Even so, "they weren't mean to us and we weren't mean to them."

American Prisoners Sure Didn't Live As Well. --GreGen