When Cecil Camlin was growing up on a farm in South Carolina, World War II seemed remote, the stuff of newsreels and newspaper headlines. That changed overnight for Camlin and others across America when German war prisoners showed up to work the family farm. Suddenly the enemy was hoeing the back garden, and sometimes even sitting at the kitchen table.
Nearly 400,000 captured German soldiers were shipped to the U.S. during World War II, to prison camps dotted across the country. They went to work on farms and in factories in small-town America, where the enemies came face to face. Mine Enemy: the Story of German POWs in America is an hour-long special that captures this remarkable moment in history, when two warring cultures came in close contact.
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