German POW Woman Thought Americans Would Take Her Newborn — They Gave a Birth Certificate Instead WW2 In the summer of 1945, Greta Fischer, a pregnant German prisoner of war, arrived in a Louisiana camp convinced the Americans would take her baby. The Nazi propaganda had been clear: the enemy was monstrous and merciless. But what happened next defied all her fears. This is the true story of fear transformed into hope, of a simple document that changed everything, and of the profound, unexpected