German Women POWs in Texas Were Shocked When Cowboys Put Them on Horses Instead of Chains скачать в хорошем качестве

German Women POWs in Texas Were Shocked When Cowboys Put Them on Horses Instead of Chains

German Women POWs in Texas Were Shocked When Cowboys Put Them on Horses Instead of Chains Texas, 1944. The sun had barely climbed over the horizon when the trucks rolled through the dust outside Amarillo. The engines coughed, sputtered, and died, leaving only the sound of cicas and a low wind pushing through mosquite trees. Inside one of the trucks sat a group of German prisoners, not soldiers, but women. Their khaki uniforms were creased, their eyes hollow from weeks of transport across oceans and borders. Among them, 24year-old Lisa Lotto Minhart, a former Luftvafa radio operator captured near Sherborg. She had imagined America as a cage of steel and fire. Every rumor from home had told her the same thing, that captured Germans would be beaten, humiliated, or made to dig their own graves under the desert sun.