Originally Posted by ddsrph (Post 13065356)

A little off topic but I saw an interesting article about Crossville TN last week. During WW2 Tennessee had six German POW camps with the biggest in Crossville. A German officer captured in North Africa in 1943 spent two years there and later wrote a book about it. The prisoners had it better than most Europeans during the war. Paid to work on local farms and use the money to buy beer and other necessities, and order whatever from Sears catalog. Given three meals a day which they highly rated and teach classes and organize sports teams. This officer returned to Germany after the war and in 1953 emigrated to Tennessee and at the time of the article was a 92 year old resident of Crossville.

Originally Posted by Jack_Russells4ever (Post 13065450)

After the war there were thousands of German ex POW's that managed to immigrate to America.

Originally Posted by ddsrph (Post 13065594)

Even before that German immigration exceeded all others.

Originally Posted by vespucci (Post 13065821)

I don't know why German is listed as a nation, not British, and I'm not sure what American means. Presumably American could be added to English/Scottish/(part)Irish, which would make British the biggest, ahead of German.