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  2. List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the United ...

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    Italian prisoners of war working on the Arizona Canal (December 1943) In the United States at the end of World War II, there were prisoner-of-war camps, including 175 Branch Camps serving 511 Area Camps containing over 425,000 prisoners of war (mostly German). The camps were located all over the US, but were mostly in the South, due to the higher expense of heating the barracks in colder areas ...

  3. German prisoners of war in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Major POW camps across the United States as of June 1944 Entrance to Camp Swift in Texas, August 1944. Members of the German military were interned as prisoners of war in the United States during World War I and World War II. In all, 425,000 German prisoners lived in 700 camps throughout the United States during World War II.

  4. Camp Aliceville - Wikipedia

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    Camp Aliceville was a World War II era prisoner of war (POW) camp in Aliceville, Alabama. Its construction began in August 1942, it received its first prisoners in June 1943, and it shut down in September 1945. It was the largest World War II POW camp in the Southeastern United States, holding between 2,000 and 12,000 German prisoners at any ...

  5. At the end of WWII, Milwaukee was home to a prisoner of war camp

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    During World War II, the United States set up hundreds of prisoner of war camps in the U.S., including nearly 40 in Wisconsin. But it wasn't till nearly the end of the war that POWs were sent to ...

  6. Great Papago Escape - Wikipedia

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    The Great Papago Escape was the largest Axis prisoner-of-war escape to occur from an American facility during World War II.On the night of December 23, 1944, twenty-five Germans tunneled out of Camp Papago Park, near Phoenix, Arizona, and fled into the surrounding desert.

  7. The incredible story of how POWs played golf at the ‘Great ...

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    In comparison to other POW camps under German control, captives at Stalag Luft III received “excellent” treatment for the majority of the war, according to a 1944 US Military Intelligence ...

  8. Lists of World War II prisoner-of-war camps - Wikipedia

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    1 Allied prisoner-of-war camps during World War II. 2 Axis prisoner-of-war camps during World War II. Toggle the table of contents. Lists of World War II prisoner-of ...

  9. Camp Ruston - Wikipedia

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    A POW issued uniform was donated by a former POW to the Camp Ruston Foundation and is now located in the archives. Only 34 prisoners escaped and remained free for over 24 hours, and only one was never recaptured. The most famous escape was performed by a German soldier named Charly King.