German POWs Hadn't Tasted Sugar in Years. Then Americans Served Them Cinnamon Rolls.

In the fall of 1944, on the Kraft family's fruit farm at Sparta, Michigan, a German prisoner of war named Heinrich Feldmen had a birthday. Mrs. Kraft already cooked the prisoners who worked her orchard a hot dinner, and for Feldmen she baked a birthday cake as well. CHAPTERS 0:00 A Birthday Cake at Sparta 8:05 Sugar Under Ration 14:43 Prisoners Crossing the Atlantic 26:16 Farm Kitchens and Prisoners 36:16 Sugar Beets and Labor 54:29 Leaner Rations and Accident 1:00:59 Letters Home and Care Packages FOOTAGE AND IMAGES U.S. National Archives (public domain), NAIDs: 2128897, 513807, 80491, 175738953, 7385017, 205578715, 205578606, 204947912, 79406, 214439716, 505633758, 505633755, 79401, 176887982, 175539235, 57361175, 204990348 Archival film via the Internet Archive: Horse Drawn Harvester 1, Pare Lorenz Wikimedia Commons, Digital Public Library of America and Openverse 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.