Sunday, December 18, 2011

Nativity Scene built by German POWs during WWII


6 comments:

  1. Beautiful and inspirational. How did they make this?

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  2. I did not realize that we had German POW camps here in the US. I've been to a couple of the Japanese camps. Now I've got to put this museum on my list of places to see. What an incredible Nativity scene they created.

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  3. Were the figures hand carved? We saw a museum exhibit about the interred Italians during WWII, was this similar?

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  4. Especially meaningful considering the history behind them.

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  5. I am in the camp of knowing zero about his story before this very minute. Just as eluded to earlier, the strangeness of German POWs commemorating a little Jewish baby is remarkable. With Christmas soon upon us, I find this little known war occurrence heartwarming. Maybe there really is hope for mankind.

    John
    connectedtothevinephotography.blogspot.com

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  6. There were a lot of German POW camps in the USA. Here is a link to them. I have see Camp Hale in Colorado. The history of the camp is quite interesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_POW_camps_in_the_United_States

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