German POW General Called America Weak. Then He Faced American Reality.

A German general mocked America as soft and unprepared. Then he crossed the Atlantic as a prisoner of war and saw what he had been wrong about. This is the story of Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke, who refused to surrender at Brest, and of what he found at Camp Clinton, Mississippi, the camp that held captured German generals. Chapters: 0:00 The general who walked out of camp 0:44 Who Ramcke was 1:27 Brest: the surrender he refused 2:46 What he was taught about America 3:52 Trent Park 4:22 Across the Atlantic to Mississippi 4:58 Camp Clinton: the generals' camp 7:09 The tunnel and Nurse Wells 8:26 Prisoners arrive in Virginia 8:47 The Mississippi River model 9:37 425,000 prisoners across America 10:08 After the war: staying to work 10:37 The letters to Byron Price and Senator Eastland 12:16 New Year's Day 1946: the escape 13:09 The punishment and Ramcke's later life 14:06 The return in 1996 14:43 Two men, one camp Subscribe to World War 2 Desk for more true stories from the war's forgotten corners. #WW2 #WorldWar2 #WW2History #GermanGeneral #POW