Evening star., 1945-05-06
By IVES GALLAGHER,


Associated Press War Correspondent
AT THE 83d DIVISION CON-
MAND POST. Germany, May S.
1t. Anon G. Carter, jr., a prisoner
Of the Germans for more than two
years was dramatically reunited to-
day with his father, publisher of
the Fort Worth tTexD Star-Tele-
gram, who is visiting atrocity
scenes.
The lieutenant walked up behind
his father, talking to soldiers nearby
and announced himself quietly. His
father turned around obviously
overcome with emotion, embraced
him and patted him on the back
wordlessly.
The younger Carter said the worst
treatment he had received since his
capture came at the hands of
Italians during the early phases of
the war.
After being seized at Faid Pass
in Tunisia he was flown to Italy in
German plane.
In Italy he was taken to the town
of Capua, a short distance north
of Naples. 1t was there that the
Italians vented their spite on the
American prisoners, whose country
men they later were to greet as
liberators.
They spat on us and threw rocks
at u.s." 1t Carter said. 1T was the
worst treatment we had from any
body
Thinks Of Others.
Overcoming visible embarrassment
before the party of Army personnel
and press representatives, he kept
saying not only to his father but
W the general officers present:
We've got to go back and get
those other fellows. They're wor-
ried about the Russian-German
fights going on all around them and
we've got to get them
From Italy 1t. Carter was taken
to Germany and shipped to Poland,
where he spent 18 months at the
Szubin officers prison camp, Oflag
"a. When the Russians broke
through in that area last January
2l, the Germans started walking
500 prisoners out. 1t. Carter said
lots of them had frozen feet or
were sick and they were left behind"
+ Once members of 1t. Carriers
party thought they had been lib
Grated when the Russians sur
rounded them, but short time
later a Lithuanian SIS elite Guard
outfit came through In a brief at
tack and picked them up again.
After that they were shipped in
boxcars, IS to a car, to Berlin. For
eight days they went without food
except what they could get by swap
ping Red Cross cigarettes for provi-
sions from German troops passing
in trains bound for the front.
Arriving in Berlin February 4, the
prisoner train was met by an Allied
air raid. Guards deserted the train
and left the boxcars locked near an
airdrome which was one of the
bombers' principal targets.
Sent to Luchenwald.
Shortly after that he was shipped
with others to Luchenwald. He said
200 Norwegians, mostly political
prisoners. had saved the lives Of
many Americans in the camp dur
ing February and March by sharing
supplies when no Red Cross parcels
arrived.
Russians overran the camp re-
Gently but German counterattacks
made impossible any attempt by
American troops to get in and with
draw the prisoners without con-
fusing the military situation.
Told about reports that returning
American prisoners of war might be
given an opportunity to guard Ger
man war prisoners back home, the
lieutenant said:
IF that is true. I would like to
be one of the first to guard some
Of them"
Liberated with 1t. Carter were
two American privates captured at
the same time as he was.
They are James F. Thill, Hoboken,
N. j., and Ralph Boiling, Gallagher,
w. Va, both of the lst Armored Di-
vision. Pvt. Boiling, who enlisted in
the Army when Is years old and
now is 81, has spent three of his
five years in the Army in prison
camps.
Prisoners Feel Neglected.
Both said several thousand Amer
ican prisoners in Luchenwald felt