Europe was not the only front that 'The Allies' were fighting the Germans on, there was also the 'North African Campaign' and other fronts as well. Many of the Nazis who were captured on that front of the war were housed in camps in the United States, specifically warm climate states like Texas.

There was an allied rule that a POW had to be held in a climate similar to that which he had been taken prisoner in. By the end of the war, at least 380,000 German POW's were being housed in POW camps in the United States.

Now here is where things get very interesting. The Nazis who had been captured on the North African front and were sent to places like Texas specifically, were made to hoe and pick cotton along side African Americans who hadn't been sent to help fight World War 2. African Americans were expected to pick 2-3 times as much cotton as the German POW's..... The German/Nazi POW's were also allowed to eat in 'White Only' cafeterias, and overall got better treatment than African Americans all the way up until the United States' Government found out what the Germans HAD REALLY BEEN DOING, and all the killing that had gone on in the camps, and elsewhere regarding the death squads (Einsatzgruppen) as well.

It was at that point, that things changed drastically, and they no longer received better treatment at all. Initially though, people were shocked that these "Boys" were Hitler's Master Race. One Texan commented that "They look no different than the locals in the neighborhood"

Here's a couple of Comments from Nazi POW Farm Workers in Texas pertaining to the African Americans that they were forced to work alongside with.

"The blacks…didn’t do much better than us,” remarked one POW. “They were just in front of the wire, and we were behind the wire.” Another German soldier, who was a farmer in his civilian life, noted that African Americans were expected to pick two to three more times the cotton required of the POWs. “You have to see how they lived,” he said after the war. “These people were so exploited.”

I didn't add this little piece of information to make the Nazi POW's look good in any way, since any African American in one of the Segregated Units fighting in Europe who got caught by the Germans, was executed typically IMMEDIATELY, or taken to a camp and killed there. They had no mercy AT ALL. Really though, they didn't even bother taking them to the camps, as those were reserved for higher priority prisoners, the Germans just killed them on sight.

If you're African American and reading this, I apologize for the treatment that you've received in this country, but I can tell you that if the Nazis had won the war, instead of receiving ill treatment and racist policies, you would have faced complete extermination. Will race relations ever get better? probably not so much, but you do have civil rights and are not legally segregated the way you were pre-1964. Make the best of it.

As far as why Patton was not allowed to finish off the Russians, that would require another long and tedious thread that I'm just not willing to author right now. However, 1. They had been a temporary ally during the war 2. There were Communist infiltrators in our own Government that made sure that didn't happen and 3. Most of the allies were tired of the killing, and the Russians temporarily appeared to be part of 'the good guys' because they did the majority of the fighting against Germany and also liberated many of the Concentration Camps, which seems contradictory, since Russia was known for having their own concentration camps/gulags.

Would it have been good to force Russia into unconditional capitulation so that they never acquired Nuclear Weapons?, absolutely, but it's just not how things worked out, and at the time, logistically and morally it was hard to justify. Make no mistake though, the Communists were terrible people, no better than the Nazis, just a lot less efficient, and without the stringent racial standards. Stalin was a Georgian Turk, he wasn't even Russian.

End of thread. I hope everyone found this interesting.