Stark Decency: German Prisoners of War in a New England Village

by Allen V. Koop

Stark Decency is a window into the events of two vastly different German combat veterans captured in North Africa and Normandy, and the small New Hampshire logging town which found itself hosting the prison camp. Each side was forced to confront its prejudices and fears, and examine the merits and flaws of its ideology. Then, an astonishing thing in their rural isolation, sharing harsh weather conditions and the pinch of wartime rationing, friendships began to develop. Prisoners and their guards sometimes even worked together to meet the daily pulpwood quotas, and little handmade gifts to the local villagers cemented friendships that continue to this day.

150 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 26, 2000

Reviews

[Mark McKellar · Rating 3 out of 5]

A very nice book about a little known part of US History.