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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 ...
List of prisoner-of-war camps in Allied-occupied Germany; List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in Kenya; List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the Soviet Union; List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the United Kingdom; List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the United States
German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II 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).
Pages in category "World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the United States" The following 67 pages are in this category, out of 67 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 .
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 .
This is a list of internment and concentration camps, organized by country.In general, a camp or group of camps is designated to the country whose government was responsible for the establishment and/or operation of the camp regardless of the camp's location, but this principle can be, or it can appear to be, departed from in such cases as where a country's borders or name has changed or it ...