May 8th, 1945. Victory in Europe Day. Across America, church bells rang and crowds filled the streets in celebration.
In prisoner of war camps from Texas to New York, German soldiers prepared for repatriation to their defeated homeland. But in a small facility outside Fort Deans, Massachusetts, something unprecedented was happening. When American commanders announced to a group of German women prisoners that they were free to return home, many of them did the unthinkable.
They begged to stay. These weren't ordinary prisoners. They were members of the German Women's Auxiliary Corps, captured during the final months of the war in Europe.
Young women who had served the Reich in various capacities, now facing a choice that would define the rest of their lives.
