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How One Pair of Socks Showed a German POW What Her Country Never Did

In 1945, a German female radar technician arrived at an American POW camp in Massachusetts, bracing herself for harsh treatment. During her initial medical examination, something unexpected happened that would shatter her understanding of military care. A nurse casually handed her thick wool socks and genuine leather shoes that actually fit perfectly, replacing the disintegrating boots she had endured for eighteen months. For years, she had marched through brutal snow with only newspaper stuffed inside oversized men's boots, her toes perpetually numb and blackened from frostbite, always told that proper footwear was reserved exclusively for frontline soldiers. When the American doctor gently treated her severely damaged feet with warm compresses and healing salve, explaining that no one should ever suffer from preventable cold injuries, she completely broke down in tears, overwhelmed by this compassionate gesture that starkly revealed how thoroughly her own military had neglected even the most basic physical needs of its women.