Media Summary: In this rare footage from 1988, Charles Kuralt meets a Russian dentist who vowed for 50 years to contact the American soldiers ... They Thought They Were Being Freed” — German Beaten. Tortured. Isolated. Mike McGrath and Orson Swindle survived brutality unfathomable to most. They were unbreakable.

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In this rare footage from 1988, Charles Kuralt meets a Russian dentist who vowed for 50 years to contact the American soldiers ... They Thought They Were Being Freed” — German Beaten. Tortured. Isolated. Mike McGrath and Orson Swindle survived brutality unfathomable to most. They were unbreakable.

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Colorado POWs share prisoner experience

Colorado POWs share prisoner experience

Colorado POWs share prisoner experience

German POWs Couldn't Believe Americans Let Them Play Sports

German POWs Couldn't Believe Americans Let Them Play Sports

In 1944, over 425000 German

German POWs in Colorado Believed This Mountain Detail Meant Freedom — They Were Wrong

German POWs in Colorado Believed This Mountain Detail Meant Freedom — They Were Wrong

During World War II, German

The German POWs Who Faced the Rockies Instead of the Front

The German POWs Who Faced the Rockies Instead of the Front

The German

A Russian prisoner never forgot the American POWs who fed him in a Nazi prison camp (1988)

A Russian prisoner never forgot the American POWs who fed him in a Nazi prison camp (1988)

In this rare footage from 1988, Charles Kuralt meets a Russian dentist who vowed for 50 years to contact the American soldiers ...

German POWs in Greeley

German POWs in Greeley

A class project talking about the German

The Colorado Mountain Job That Made German POWs Think They Were Free

The Colorado Mountain Job That Made German POWs Think They Were Free

High in the

“AMERICANS LIVE LIKE KINGS” — GERMAN POWS STUNNED BY CAMP LIFE IN COLORADO

“AMERICANS LIVE LIKE KINGS” — GERMAN POWS STUNNED BY CAMP LIFE IN COLORADO

AMERICANS LIVE LIKE KINGS” — GERMAN

A German POW in Pennsylvania--At 101, He Tells His Story

A German POW in Pennsylvania--At 101, He Tells His Story

During World War II, thousands of German

“They Thought They Were Being Freed” — German POWs Sent to the Colorado Mountains

“They Thought They Were Being Freed” — German POWs Sent to the Colorado Mountains

They Thought They Were Being Freed” — German

German POWs Couldn’t Believe Reading Comics in Colorado Camps, 1944

German POWs Couldn’t Believe Reading Comics in Colorado Camps, 1944

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German POWs in Colorado Thought Escape Was Possible — Then Came the Mountain Assignment

German POWs in Colorado Thought Escape Was Possible — Then Came the Mountain Assignment

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Operation Homecoming 50 years later: 2 Colorado POWs speak on survival, triumph within the ...

Operation Homecoming 50 years later: 2 Colorado POWs speak on survival, triumph within the ...

Beaten. Tortured. Isolated. Mike McGrath and Orson Swindle survived brutality unfathomable to most. They were unbreakable.