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Why German POWs Became American Informants during WW2

When Kurt was offered a choice by U.S. Military Intelligence—cooperate and help identify Nazi enforcers terrorizing fellow prisoners, or stay silent while violence escalated—he crossed a line he could never uncross. For seven months, he passed intelligence reports through secret channels, helping dismantle the "Lagergestapo" (camp Gestapo) that ruled Camp Alva with intimidation and brutality. But after the Johannes Kunze murder at nearby Camp Tonkawa in November 1943—where a suspected informant was beaten to death by fellow POWs—Kurt knew that discovery meant death. The German POW who became an American informant faced impossible choices in impossible circumstances. This is the untold story of collaboration, conscience, and the price of survival. 📚 SOURCES & HISTORICAL RECORDS: National Archives RG 389: Office of the Provost Marshal General (POW Operations) "Nazi Prisoners of War in America" by Arnold Krammer Camp Alva Historical Collections, Oklahoma Historical Society OSS Records: Prisoner Intelligence Operations (declassified 1985) U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Liberation Documentation #GermanPOW #ww2 #worldwar2