Walter Schmid

About The Author

Walter Schmid retired in 1985 from his job as a toolmaker in a small town near Stuttgart, Germany. He wrote this book to explain his war experiences to his grandson, Stephan.

Books by Walter Schmid

A German POW in New Mexico
By Walter Schmid
Edited by Richard Rundell and Schlauch T. Wolfgang
Walter Schmid, a member of Rommel's Afrika Korps, was one of hundreds of thousands of POWs interned in the United States during World War II. Drafted into the German army at twenty, he had fought for only five months when captured in Tunisia in May 1943. Schmid was sent first to POW camps in Okla...
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