Mistreatment of American POWs by German Military | American POWs forced to March to Prison Camp 1944-5
1945, PM Tabloid, POWs

U.S. POWs Singled Out for Abuse
(PM Tabloid, 1945)

PM war correspondent Victor Bernstein filed this story three weeks before VE-Day concerning a 180-mile forced march that was the lot of assorted Allied prisoner of war in Germany. Numerous interviews with the survivors of the march revealed that the Nazis lording over as many as 4,000 POWs choosing to brutalize the U.S. prisoners in much the same way they abused Poles and Soviets. British POWs seemed not to attract their ire.