At Camp Gruber, Oklahoma, in 1944, German prisoner Karl Heinz Mertens walked into the American mess hall and found bread, meat, potatoes, coffee, and fruit — the same basic food the American…
In 1944, at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma, a German prisoner of war named Karl Heinz Mertens went to the mess hall with the other men from his compound. There were tables, trays, cooks, guards, and the ordinary noise of men waiting for food. Years later, Mertens remembered what surprised him. The prisoners were eating the same … Read more