German POWs Couldn't Believe the Aroma of Bacon in American Camps

At Camp Crossville, on the Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee, a German officer held there as a prisoner of war later wrote about what the camp kitchen put out on Sunday afternoons, coffee and cake, made under a German kitchen supervisor. His name was Hans Albert Smolinski Albertson, and of those Sunday afternoons he wrote a single line. "Naturally, we could not write home such extravagances, nor could we tell that to our prison guards!" CHAPTERS 0:00 Sunday Cake at Crossville 4:53 The Ration Card 15:01 Afrika Korps Surrenders 20:13 Prisoners Fed by Treaty 29:01 German Cooks in American Camps 55:58 Going Home to Hunger FOOTAGE AND IMAGES U.S. National Archives (public domain), NAIDs: 100310362, 148742031, 204903481, 176887888, 162124725, 205578727, 205578789, 18472280, 205578715, 138926164, 12010189, 204885916, 205574282, 505633752, 505633758, 81590, 77036, 204904430, 204901418, 176888006 Archival film via the Internet Archive: Allies Open Final Drive In Germany, 1945/03/15 Wikimedia Commons, Openverse, Digital Public Library of America and Europeana images are credited with author and licence in the pinned comment. Some scenes are AI-generated reconstructions of historical moments where no photograph exists. No real, identifiable person was AI-generated.