"Them? They're going to work in the field together. The Germans are teaching the villagers modern ways to grow food."
Prisoners teaching the people of an enemy country? Happily going to work in the fields together? George realized he had come to a wonderful place.
Later, George learned that the POWs were building a little German-style town in the camp. It had the bowling alley, a library, a bath house, cottages, a theater, and a restaurant. It was a prison camp, but the POW's lives were almost free.
The camp supervisor made all this possible. The prisoners were not criminals, so he was nice to them. They were fellow human beings.
