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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 ...
Fear of secret punishment by such men caused one prisoner to later state that "there was more political freedom in the German army than in an American prison camp." He and other anti-Nazis were sent to Camp Ruston to protect them, [ 16 ] : xx, 27, 114–115, 151, 153, 157, 161, 167–168 while an Oklahoma camp received Waffen-SS and prisoners ...
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 Rupert; Camp Ruston; Camp Shanks; Camp Shelby; Camp Skokie Valley; Camp Thomas A. Scott ...
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).
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 ...
American Red Cross German POW Camp Map from December 31, 1944. Nazi Germany operated around 1,000 prisoner-of-war camps (German: Kriegsgefangenenlager) during World War II (1939-1945). [1] The most common types of camps were Oflags ("Officer camp") and Stalags ("Base camp" – for enlisted personnel POW camps), although other less common types ...
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 .
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 .