German prisoner of war camps in the US???

[sofa king]

73. I think it depended on the country.

I recall reading that in Western European countries occupied by the Nazis, occupying soldiers were sometimes noted for their politeness and even helpfulness at times. (The civilian Nazi leadership in those occupied countries was rarely entirely civil, and any outburst was still ruthlessly suppressed.)

There was, of course, a dark ulterior motive for such behavior in places like the Netherlands and France, which was that the Germans had quietly pushed the currency exchange rates heavily in their own favor, so that quiet and sustained output by the people in those occupied countries directly fed the German war economy.

When charitable behavior is profitable, as noted German propagandist Ari Fleischer recently pointed out, even terrible people will pursue it. That doesn't make them less terrible, though.