Re: energy and mass

From	Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
Newsgroups	sci.physics.relativity, sci.electronics.design
Subject	Re: energy and mass
Date	2026-03-24 17:56 +1100
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On 24/03/2026 2:07 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:48:12 +0100, Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de>
> wrote:
> 
>> Am Sonntag000022, 22.03.2026 um 11:24 schrieb Bill Sloman:
>> ...
>>>>>>>> There is a little other topic, which isn't discussed that often
>>>>>>>> and that was the fate of the German POWs in US-camps.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> They were housed, kept warm, had clean clothes and decent beds, had
>>>>>>> medical care, had books and movies, sometimes had paying jobs, had far
>>>>>>> better food than German soldiers.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is a famous picture of one of the US POW-Camps in Germany:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/
>>>>>> Remagen_enclosure.jpg/500px-Remagen_enclosure.jpg
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As I see it, there were no tents, no beds, no heating and no fresh
>>>>>> clothes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Instead the German soldiers had to sit on bare ground with no shelter
>>>>>> what ever.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And that enormous camp was just one of many US-camps.
>>>>>
>>>>> When entire divisions or entire armies surrender, it takes a while to
>>>>> sort things out.
>>>>
>>>> Sure.
>>>>
>>>> The USA alone captured more then four million German soldiers.
>>>>
>>>> So: what was their fate?
>>>
>>> They got sent to France and the UK and had to put in three years working
>>> on repairing the damage German forces had inflicted during WW2.>
>>>> I personally have never heard of any ships coming from the states and
>>>> releasing large amounts of POWs to German soil (even if I was born in
>>>> Hamburg).
>>>
>>> Since the German prisoners of war spent three years working in France
>>> the UK, that never happened. They'd get shipped home on trains and
>>> ferries, and the occupying powers would have made sure that there
>>> weren't any public celebrations when they did get back to Germany.
>>
>> No, I didn't mean the French and British camps, but the POW-camps in the
>> USA, to which about four million german soldiers were brought.
>>
>> (Most of the inmates of the 'Rheinwiesen'-camps.)
>>
>> What was the fate of those POWs, the US-forces shipped to the sates?
>> (allegedly that were roughly 4 million soldiers)
> 
> We boiled them and ate them, except in Texas they bbq'd.

This isn't actually true. John Larkin is making a tasteless joke, and 
not paying any attention to the fact that Thomas Heger might be silly 
enough to take him seriously.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney

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