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We were well trained in the Geneva Convention—

That’s Thomas Sweet again, he was actually one of the guards at Camp Aliceville, and what he said is that, even before the POWs arrived, the Geneva Conventions were drilled into their heads. They had lectures, the rules were posted in the rec hall and in the officers’ club…

We had to, uh, the prisoners had to be treated the same, uh, as you would, uh, your own fellow soldiers.

Which sounds kind of basic, but for somebody like Hans who’s stepping off this train and wondering how he’s going to be treated…

It was… I should say, it was…really…a sort of, uh…heaven.

Although it sounds trivial, it’s rather unsettling when you compare it to how U.S. officials in the same era typically treated (for example) people of color and the homeless.