OUT OF TOUCH WITH THE WORLD
One of the strangest stories to come out of World War II concerns the mystery of two young men who were captured by the Americans in Germany near the end of the war. The two were shipped to a P.O.W. camp in this country. Attempts were made to integrate them to no avail. They would not or could not speak to American authorities. They kept to themselves and refused to talk to anyone, even their fellow German prisoners. In fact, the other German prisoners insisted that they knew nothing of the pair either. The American officers were puzzled. The two men seemed frightened and bewildered but not sullen or rebellious. After a few weeks in their new quarters they even seemed willing to cooperate, but when they finally did speak no one could understand a word they said. There was something else too. They did not look like Germans. Their features were more Mongoloid or Asiatic in appearance.…
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