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t ale,” jder! ad-1JoPa-,ry”jfor■ .» • , * , »German Prisoners' AttitudesHave Changed In a Yeari.i■Iith(Editor’s Note: The attitude of German prisoners of war eheld in the United States has changed; a year ago they were con-:h vinced that Nazi defeats were Only “temporary1 setbacks’* and n , that Adolf Hitler would win his “tyrants’ war” and liberate them;I ' now they only await the “cease firing” order so they can go home v m | to a defeated nation. • ( ■ j [ rind; (This amazing change of mind by the captured Germans is} t ersi vividly told in the following exclusive article'by .an INS reporter,! IllJj who has just visited the Trinidad, Colo., prisoner of war c^rnp. I rst, where he mingied with German ----_ _ . *.officers and enlisted men, with tan1 * • * *•an American officer acting as his guide).- • |us-ur~ifstsoficeBy JOIIN O’CONNOR, INS Staff CorrespondentPrisoner-of-War Camp, Trini-ofidad, Colo., June 5.— (INS) — German prisoners'of war—offi-f:* . * ■ * » voluntary enrollment basis, but }with a very high percentage of*the men participating. 1 . aThey are seeking to continue I reducational training they re-^c,ceived in Germany, hopeful the nachievements they make atj hCamp Trinidad will be ac- aknowledged, in time to come,-nrby the German minister of ed- j bcers and enlisted men, alike-) ucatio„ through the intermedi-ia are looking toward the day|ary o£ the international Red! tlj3-rillon/c-:edrs.\llrillater,jreallwhen hostilities will have end-/in -ed; to when they will be per-JS® mitted to return to their home-land and pick lip the strands of ,onj normal civilian [life that were er’ j broken when they were mus-. tcrcd into service at the com-imand of Adolf Hitler, j These men, captured in Afri-ftYx ca more than a ; year ago—vet-: erans of - Rommel’s • ill-fated | campaign, and many of whom jC_ j saw -rugged service on 'the er, j frigid Russian front previously nd! —have changed considerably of! since they left their train on a x-J siding two miles from the Trin-sts;idad prisoner of war camp aice i year ago and trudged up thers. winding road under guard of American MP’s to the camp, located atop a Colorado plateau.That was noted when I just visited Camp Trinidad,; in contrast to my first tour of the | camp last summer, about two ssl j months after the first prisoners i t I had arrived.Definitely Aloof.On my first visit, the prison-*ers—notably the officers—were definitely aloof. They were still steeped in the belief Germany wouid triumph and, with-2et j out question in their minds, win I their periods |of confinement would be ended. That manifestation does not pervade the es-1 compounds of Camp Trinidad r^s! today.On the contrary, the men— without saying so—are looking to the day when “cease firing”will be the order and when journeys homeward will’ be started. One can tell from their general demeanor and attitude of what I their thoughts are, for the most part. • Through the medium of newspapers, magazines arid radios, which they are permitted to buy and have, these Germans well know the daily progress of the war.There was the time when radiocasts and news stories were labeled by them as so much ‘^American propaganda.” ■ But today, after a year in Colorado confinement, they have reached the point where, in many' instances, they are virtually .willing to concede the - facts they hear and of which they read. -As I toured the camp, in company with camp officers in charge of their compound and escorted by an American captain as my guide, in the prisoners’ eyes could be seen their thoughts.. A striking .example of the preparations these Qermans are making for the day when they return home was*seen .in the various . educational programs in progress at. the camp. These programs are condqcted by German officials under American supervision.With time on their hands, these German officers and men are making the most of opportunities to- study, learn • and equip, themselves for service, at home when the time arrives. School System.In: the past year at the camp, these men have labored to the point where a schooling system, involving 270 lectures a week on various subjects and taught by a faculty of 126 teachers, is carried out under the direction of a German lieutenant-doctor whose pre-war work in Germany was that of a skin disease specialist. 'Of the 126 men’ on the faculty, . 60 of them were teachers in German universities and high schools before the war came in 1939.Classes in mathematics, languages, sciences arid other basic subjects’ are conducted oil a.Cross. : j I h.These prisoners have received! IV text books from Germany, via'n the International Red Cross, jfrom the Y. M. C. A., and someI•!from the University of Colora-j do. But there is never a suffi-jTt ciency of such books, they as-«psert.2V1Co-operation given by Amer-!scican officials of the camp, headed by. Lieut. Col. Lambert B. j Cain, is appreciated by thlein their educationalprisonerspursuits.i.J. R. CalvinRecalls 1872al ‘ clt;iWagon Tripre-terighes,ayw-or-ofionlatas;si-ro~:ryheridmehein-'Junius R. Calvin, 77, residing four miles northwest of Tipton, was viewing some of the histor-icar displays in Tipton Saturday and related that he came to this I county in 1872 by way of the j covered wagon. He accompanied his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Calvin, together ; with his paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs j James Calvin, and his uncle, John Calvin. His sister, Mrs. Jonathan Curry, 75, of Daleville, made the seventh member of the family who journeyed to Tipton county. *t The Calvin family had resided near Patriot, Switzerland; county, on the Ohio river. They; pulled stakes there in Novem-1ber, 1867, with the intention j of j locating j somewhere in Tipton county, after hearing from relatives who had- preceded therri to make [new homes here.'Five • days were required to ; make the trip. Mr. Calvin told i of spending their last night out} on the ! farm, which is • now} owned by Guy Nash, on high-; way 31. Upon their arrival | there they were welcomed byj Mose Carver and his family, ! who occupied a log cabin on the site’ of the present Nash home.From there the Calvin family went to .Tetersburg, where the elder Mr. Galvin rented the farm which is now owned and operated by Frank Bower, south of Tetersburg. In 1873 the family rented the late J. B. Ply-mire farm at the edge of Goldsmith. This was prior to, ;the time jof the founding of Goldsmith: This farm is now owned. . . * ; lby the granddaughter of j.the late J. B. Plymire, Mrs. Otis Horton. • 1Mr. Calvin has been a Tipton county farmer during his entire life and has many interesting accounts to give the presentgeneration. His main ambitionis to remain a farmer in Tipton county .during the remainder of his years. Iid,la-iverarkeeerktoLADY, TAKE A BOW.. , i ,Pendleton, Ore., June 3. — (INS)—The work of a Pendleton-woman will return to benefit her community when a Pendleton hospital receives | six million Oxford units of penicillin for treatment of civilians. Some of the research to ’produce the. “wonder drug” jwas pioneered in the United States by Dr. Dorothy Heilman, native of Pendleton. She collaborated with another staff member at Mayo Brothers in extensive experiments. ' !AN ELUSIVE PUP..1; McKeesport, Pa., June 5. —-(INS) — A husky police lien-tenant and a patrolman, strug-
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Tipton, Indiana, US
Mon, Jun 05, 1944
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