Even through the knowledge of the death and crude conditions American Prisoners of War were being put through the United States still held strong in the Convention and gained respect, that later helped us, from other countries.
In Summer of my German Soldier the main character experiences the fear and excitement of seeing Nazi soldiers come off a train and later on helps one soldier hide. This character is based off one of the people who saw the soldiers as young, whipped boys and not Devils and, treated him as such. Later this character is punished for this decision as did many real people during that time was. The soldier in the book had been drafted, like so many others, against his will and due to the kindness he was shown was able to spend his last few moments being free before he was