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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 ...
However, many prisoners accepted the films as factual; after compulsory viewing of an atrocity film, 1,000 prisoners at Camp Butner burned their German uniforms. [18] [22]: 119 Prisoners at other camps called on Germany to surrender. In an idea seriously considered but ultimately rejected by American military officials, a few prisoners even ...
Camp Breckinridge; Camp Butner; Camp Clark, Missouri; Camp Clinton; Camp Concordia; Camp Dawson (West Virginia) Camp Douglas (Wyoming) Camp Edwards; Camp Ellis; Camp Fannin; Camp Flint; Camp Forrest; Camp Hereford; Camp Houlton; Camp Hulen; Camp Myles Standish; Camp Ono; Camp Opelika; Camp Papago Park; Camp Perry; Camp Pine (Illinois) Camp ...
German prisoner-of-war camps in World War I Index of articles associated with the same name This set index article includes a list of related items that share the same name (or similar names).
The camps were numbered according to the military district. A letter behind the Roman number marked individual Stalags in a military district. e.g. Stalag II-D was the fourth Stalag in Military District II (Wehrkreis II). Sub-camps had a suffix "/Z" (for Zweiglager - sub-camp). The main camp had a suffix of "/H" (for Hauptlager - main camp). e.g.
Japanese prisoners of war camps were located in Wisconsin and Iowa while Italian prisoners were kept in Utah, Texas, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Colorado, and California. [4] One escaped German prisoner of war was never captured. Georg Gärtner turned himself on September 11, 1985. He was the last of 2,000 escaped prisoners to be ...
Internment of German resident aliens and German-American citizens occurred in the United States during the periods of World War I and World War II. During World War II, the legal basis for this detention was under Presidential Proclamation 2526 , made by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt under the authority of the Alien Enemies Act .
Pages in category "Prisoner-of-war camps in the United States" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .