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Walter Schmid, a member of Rommel's Afrika Korps, was one of hundreds of thousands of POWs interned in the United States during World War II. Drafted into the German army at twenty, he had fought for only five months when captured in Tunisia in May 1943. Schmid was sent first to POW camps in Oklahoma (Gruber, Bixby, and McAlester) and was soon transferred to New Mexico in July 1944. Walter Schmid worked in southern New Mexico's Mesilla Valley picking cotton and harvesting melons alongside Mexican-American labourers. He recalls playing trumpet in the camp orchestra and watching Sunday soccer games between the teams of rival POW camps. Based on his diary and the letters he sent home to his German girlfriend, whom he later married, Schmid's memoir was published in Germany in 2000. This abbreviated English translation begins with his capture in North Africa and his voyage to the United States and ends with his work experience in England, where he was transferred after almost three years of captivity in the United States, and his return to Germany in 1947.
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Walter Schmid retired in 1985 from his job as a toolmaker in a small town near Stuttgart, Germany. He wrote this book to explain his war experiences to his grandson, Stephan. Richard Rundell is professor of German and film studies at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. Wolfgang T. Schlauch, professor emeritus in history at Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, served as a consultant for the exhibit on POWs in New Mexico during World War II at the King Farm and Ranch Museum.
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First published in Germany in 2000, Schmid's experiences in the Southwest during WWII offer a unique glimpse of America as it looked to an enemy soldier.
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First published in Germany in 2000, Schmid's experiences in the Southwest during WWII offer a unique glimpse of America as it looked to an enemy soldier.
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A German POW in New Mexico
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A German POW in New Mexico.
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hardcover with dustjacket. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. No names or markings. Translated by Richard Rundell. Edited by Wolfgang T. Schlaugh.; 6 1/4"-9 1/4"; 167 pages. Seller Inventory # 313499
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A German POW in New Mexico
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University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM, 2005
ISBN 10: 0826333559
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM. 2005. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Signed on the FFFP the author, Walter Schmid, the translator, Richard Rundell, and editor Wolfgang Schlauch. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: As New. DJ: As New . Blue cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 167 pp 8vo. The author was a member of Rommel's Afrika Korps and captured in Tunisia in May 1943. He was taken to the US and was n POW camps on Oklahoma and New Mexico in 1944. He worked in the Mesilla Valley picking cotton and harvesting melons. With the end of hostilities in Europe, he was sent to England and returned to Germany in 1947. A clean pristine copy. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 011876