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A POW Prisoner of War is a person, whether combatant or non-combatant, who is held in custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict.


Allied POW Camps

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Australia, Britain ,United States, Canada and New Zealand all had POW Camps

Australia - during World War II, Australia interned enemy aliens under the National Security Act of 1939. Prisoners of War were also sent to Australia from other Allied countries

Canada - There were 40 known prisoner-of-war camps across Canada during World War II. The camps were identified by letters at first, then by numbers. The prisoners were given various tasks such as many working in the forests as logging crews. In addition to the main camps there were branch camps and labour camps. The largest number of prisoners of war was recorded as 33,798. (One source claims that at its peak, Canada interned 35,046 prisoners of war and Japanese-Canadians there were an additional 6,437 civil internees, members of the merchant marine and refugees.There are claims that conditions in the Canadian camps tended to be better than average, and many times better than the conditions of the barracks that Canadian troops were kept in. It is believed by some that this treatment foiled many escape attempts before they even started. Notably, it is told that group of German prisoners returned to Ozada camp after escaping because of encountering a grizzly bear

New Zealand - New Zealand had one POW Camp Featherston prisoner of war camp was a camp for captured Japanese soldiers during World War II at Featherston, New Zealand. The camp had been established during World War I as a military training camp.

United States of America - In the United States, at the end of World War II, there were 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 because of the higher expense of heating the barracks in other areas. Eventually, every state (with the exceptions of Nevada, North Dakota, and Vermont) had POW camps. Some of the camps had to be designated "segregation camps" and used to separate the Nazi "true believers" from the rest of the prisoners, whom they terrorized and even killed for being friendly with their American captors


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Australia

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Cowra

Cowra, in New South Wales - Cowra, a farming district, 314 km due west of Sydney, was the town nearest to No. 12 Prisoner of War Compound, a major POW camp, where 4,000 Axis military personnel and civilians were detained. The prisoners at Cowra also included 2,000 Italians, Koreans who had served in the Japanese military, and Indonesian civilians detained at the request of the Dutch East Indies government.By August 1944, there were 2,223 Japanese POWs in Australia, including 544 merchant seamen. There were also 14,720 Italian prisoners, who had been captured mostly in the North African Campaign, and 1,585 Germans, mostly naval or merchant seamen.Although the POWs were treated in accordance with the 1929 Geneva Convention, relations between the Japanese POWs and the guards were poor, due largely to significant cultural differences There was a breakout Cowra on August 5, 1944, when at least 1104 Japanese prisoners of war attempted to escape it was the largest prison escape of World War II, as well as one of the bloodiest

HM Prison Dhurringile

Dhurringile, Victoria - During World War II it was used as an internment camp for 'alien civilians' and later for prisoners of war one notable prisoner at Camp Dhurringile was Hauptmann Wolf Graf von Baudissin of the Afrika Korps after the war he later became one of the founders of the new German armed forces, the Bundeswehr in the Federal Republic of Germany. Baudissin retired as a Generalleutnant to become the head of the "Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy" at the University of Hamburg.

Hay POW Camp

Hay New South Wales - In December 1941 Japanese internees (some from Broome and islands north of Australia) were conveyed to Hay and placed in Camp 6. In April 1942 the River Farm began operating on the eastern edge of the township, enabling market-gardening and other farm activities to be carried out by the Italian internees and POWs. In February 1945, in the wake of the Cowra POW break-out, a large number of Japanese POWs were transferred to Hay and placed in the three high-security compounds. On 1 March 1946 the Japanese POWs departed from Hay in five trains, transferred to Tatura. During 1946 the Italians who remained at Hay were progressively released or transferred to other camps, and the Hay camps were dismantled and building materials and fittings sold off by June the following year

Jarrahadale

Jarrahadale Perth Western Australia - A POW camp was located outside the town during World War II

Katarapko Wood Camp

Katarapko Island, on the River Murray - It was officially part of the Loveday POW Camp complex, and housed Italian prisoners of war, who were employed as wood cutters for the Allied war effort. It was similar to wood camps throughout South Australia at the time, including two others attached to the Loveday POW camps - Moorook West (Wood Camp) and Woolenook (Wood Camp). The camp consisted of a tented compound, surrounded by barbed wire. The first Italian prisoners arrived at the camp on 3 May 1942. The camp guard was provided by members of the 25/33 Garrison Battalion, a militia unit of the Australian Army.

Loveday Camp 9

Loveday in South Australia's Riverland - Camp 9 (also known as Italian Internee Camp No. 9) was one of three main POW and internee camps, located at Loveday, in South Australia's Riverland, approximately 12 kilometres from Renmark. This camp could hold up to 1000 people, detaining Italian civilian internees, and later Italian prisoners of war. The camp began operations on 12 August, 1940 and the first Italian POW arrived at the camp on 11 June, 1941. The camp guard was provided by members of 25/33 Garrison Battalion, a militia unit of the Australian Army. Many internees were released from the camp in 1944.g World War II

Loveday Camp 10

Loveday in South Australia's Riverland - Camp 10 this camp could hold up to 1000 people and also held the camp headquarters and 39 buildings, including the hospital. The first Italian prisoner arrived at the camp on 12 August, 1941. The camp guard was provided by members of 25/33 Garrison Battalion, a militia unit of the Australian Army.This camp was also involved in greater world affairs during the Second World War. German nationals, who had been detained in Iran after the British and Soviet invasion were deported here. In relatiation, the Germans interned a number of British nationals from the Channel Islands and sent them to southern Germany

Loveday Camp 14

Loveday in South Australia's Riverland - Camp 14 This camp was divided into four compounds and held Axis prisoners from various locations around the world, including Papua New Guinea, the Pacific, the Middle East and North Africa. The camp guard was provided by members of 25/33 Garrison Battalion, a militia unit of the Australian Army.The four compounds were numbered and prisoners were divided into their specific nationalities. 14A held Italian prisoners, 14B and 14C held Japanese prisoners and 14D held German and Italian prisoners. Prisoners first started to arrive at Camp 14 between the months of January and February 1942. The camp officially closed in 1946, when the last prisoners were repatriated to their home countries.

Gladstone Goal

Mid North of South Australia - During World War II it was used for the internment of Germans and Italians

Rottnest Island

18 kilometres (11 mi) off the Western Australian - Rottnest was the site of internment camps in both World War I and World War II in WWI it was mostly used for German and Austrian suspected enemy aliens, and was closed towards the end of the war due to poor living conditions the camp was sited near the present day Caroline Thomson Camping Area in World War II the camp was used exclusively for Italian enemy aliens and was situated near the airstrip It had capacity for 120 internees it was closed about halfway through the war, and its occupants were sent to various other internment and work camps on the mainland

Woolenook Camp

Along the River Murray in South Australia's Riverland - Woolenook Wood Camp was a World War II internment and prisoner of war camp, located along the River Murray, in South Australia's Riverland. It was officially part of the Loveday POW Camp complex, and housed Japanese internees and later, Japanese prisoners of war. They were employed as wood cutters for the Allied war effort. It was similar to wood camps throughout South Australia at the time, including two others attached to the Loveday POW camps - Moorook West (Wood Camp) and Katarapko (Wood Camp).The camp consisted of a tented compound, surrounded by barbed wire. The camp guard was provided by members of the 25/33 Garrison Battalion, a militia unit of the Australian Army at one stage, the civilian internees were removed from the camp for their own safety, because Japanese POWs considered them spies of the Australians. The camp was officially closed on 6 May, 1945 and within a year all salvageable buildings were sold at auction.


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Canada

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Angler POW Camp

In April 1941 inmates at the Angler POW Camp near Neys Provincial Park on the north shore of Lake Superior planned the largest escape from a Canadian POW camp during World War II 80 prisoners attempted to escape 28 made it outside the walls the initial intent was for 100 prisoners to escape, but the escape was interrupted, when a guard heard noises made by the prisoners and alerted the rest of the camp. Five of the escaped prisoners were found sleeping in a construction site, and were shot the original report stated that they had rushed the two Canadian soldiers who found them, but later research indicated that four had been shot while still lying down, killing two of them, while the fifth had run into a nearby forest where he was quickly captured.

The Angler Camp was designed to hold prisoners who were a threat to Canada as a result, several German POWs were held there however, the Angler Camp held not only enemy soldiers but also innocent Japanese Canadian citizens (who were not placed in the camp until about a year after the escape attempt). There were over 650 people of Japanese descent in the camp by the summer of 1942 though they stayed in a camp with people who had threatened safety of Canadian citizens, the innocent Japanese Canadians had done nothing except birth into a Japanese family. They were not alone, however, as many other Canadian and American prisoner of war camps of World War II also held innocent citizens of foreign descent.

Bowanville POW Camp

Clarington, Ontario - The Bowmanville POW camp Camp 30 was a Canadian-run POW camp for German soldiers during World War II the property taught boys until 1941, 29 years after it first opened as a school, when the government told the school to move to a new location so the area could be quickly turned into a prisoner of war (P.O.W) camp. The boys were relocated within bowmanville to "Rathskamoray" (Currently the Lion's Center), even though most boys returned home.Canadian Officials had barely seven months to turn the boys school into a P.O.W camp. The school was built to hold many people, but the Officials had many tasks to complete before prisoners could be moved in, such as: Building barb-wire fences 15 feet apart, guard towers (exactly nine), as well as gates and barracks for the Canadian guards these tasks were completed in late 1941 just as the prisoners were arriving

In October 1942 between 1,500 to 4,000 prisoners revolted against the POW guards after they were shackled as retribution as part of the escalation of Germany's new Commando Order.Lt.Col. James Taylor had asked German senior officer Georg Friemel to supply 100 prisoners to volunteer to be shackled as part of the ongoing international dispute. When he refused, Otto Kretschmer and Hans Hefele were also asked to provide volunteers, but refused.Taylor ordered the guards to find 100 officers to be shackled by force, and Horst Elfe, Kretschmer and others barricaded themselves in the mess hall, arming themselves with sticks, iron bars and other makeshift weapons. Approximately 100 Canadian soldiers requisitioned from another base arrived, and together stormed the mess hall using only baseball bats, so the two sides remained evenly matched. After several hours of brawling, the Canadians brought high pressure water hoses and soaked the cabin thoroughly until the prisoners agreed to come out peacefully.

During later incidents in the battle which spanned several days, Volkmar König was wounded by gunfire and another prisoner was bayoneted, and a Canadian soldier suffered a skull fracture from a thrown jar of jam 126 of the prisoners were transferred to other camps

Gravenhurst

Between 1940 and 1946 Gravenhurst was home to a German Prisoner of War camp known as Camp 20. The camp is also referred to as Camp Calydor and Muskoka Officer’s Club many describe Camp 20 as a vacation for the prisoners of war. The camp had a swimming area fenced in on Lake Muskoka where the prisoners could bathe by the end of the first summer, Camp 20 held 489 prisoners. They were taken around Gravenhurst to work on various projects. The prisoners of war built a set of stone steps leading down to the waterfront which can still be seen at Gull Lake Park today they also built a light house in the park.

The camp also had its own small zoo that had a monkey and a black bear that prisoners would wrestle as a form of exercise. The camp had its own gardens where the prisoners would grow their own vegetables and they were able to smoke sausages from the local animals. Some prisoners of war said that they became friends with the guards who sought to make the place as friendly as possible to avoid escapes. Many prisoners had the opportunity to work outside of the camp and lumber camps and received a small wage as well as access to the outside world. Through this access to the outside world many German prisoners of war had love affairs with the local girls.

Hull Quebec

During World War II, Hull, along with various other regions within Canada, such as the Saguenay, Lac Saint-Jean, and Île Sainte-Hélène, had Prisoner-of-war camps Hull's prison was simply labeled with a number and remained unnamed just like Canada's other war prisons the prisoners of war (POWs) were sorted and classified into categories by nationality and civilian or military status. In this camp, POWs were mostly Italian and German nationals. During the Conscription Crisis of 1944 the prison eventually included Canadians who had refused conscription also, prisoners were forced into hard labour which included farming the land and lumbering.

Monteith POW Camp

Monteith, Iroquois Falls, Ontario - The POW Camp 23, Monteith was a Canadian-run POW camp for German soldiers during World War II, located in Monteith, Iroquois Falls, Ontario.The camp was located about 80 kilometers north-east of Timmins, Ontario and about 700 km north of Toronto. In 1941 the camp was converted into a prisoner of war camp by the Canadian government. The prisoners where interned German nationals and captured German soldiers. The camp had no fences and very few guards because of its isolated location. There were no roads at all, only kilometres of bush and lakes the prisoners would not escape because there was nowhere to go.

The Germans did their own cooking and laundry and worked 5 days a week cutting trees to be turned into lumber and using horse teams to get them to the mill. At one time there were about 3,000 prisoners in the camp.At the end of the war, the POWs were returned to Germany, but some came back to the area after the war along with other German civilians.

Red Rock

During the Second World War, a prisoner of war camp was established here housing primarily German prisoners. Many men returned to work in the mill or surrounding woods after the war.

Seebe

Seebe housed a prisoner-of-war camp in the Second World War the Kananaskis Prisoner Of War camp (No. 130), also known as Seebe for the nearby hamlet, operated from 29 September 1939 to 28 January 1946 locals referred to this facility as Camp "Kan-A-Nazi" Seebe was small with a capacity of 200 prisoners of war POWs


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New Zealand

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Featherston Prisoner of War Camp

Featherston prisoner of war camp was a camp for captured Japanese soldiers during World War II at Featherston, New Zealand. The camp had been established during World War I as a military training camp.The camp's most infamous event was on 25 February 1943 during a sit in of 240 prisoners, who refused to work. The exact sequence of events is not known, but Lieutenant Adachi was shot and wounded by the camp adjutant. This led to the prisoners either charging or appearing to charge the guards, who opened fire with rifles and sub-machine guns. Thirty seconds later 31 prisoners were dead, with another 17 dying later of their injuries, and 74 wounded. On the New Zealand side a ricochet from a burst of the gunfire killed Private Walter Pelvin six others were wounded. A military court of enquiry exonerated New Zealand. It found that there were cultural differences in the camp, which led to the deadly actions and needed to be addressed. Among the issues was that the Japanese did not know that under the 1929 Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War compulsory work was allowed.

As the end of the war neared, the prisoners began to worry about their future position in Japanese society in September 1944 they told a neutral inspector that provision needed to be made for them to return as honourable citizens, or that they be given asylum on a Pacific island. They said if something could not be done mass suicide might result. After the end of the war they also worried that they could be attacked in New Zealand over the conditions of Japanese prisoner of war camps. The prisoners embarked on 30 December 1945, travelling to Japan on two large American LSTs (tank landing ships).

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United Kingdom

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Cultybraggan Camp

Comrie West Perthshire - Named PoW camp No 21, built in 1941 to house 4,000 Category A prisoners, Cultybraggan was a 'black camp', holding those considered the most committed and fanatical Nazi PoWs, mainly young Waffen-SS, Fallschirmjäger and U-boat crew Army, Navy, Air Force and SS prisoners were held in separate compounds, as were the officers an additional camp was located at Cowden, two miles distant. Ringleaders of the Devizes plot to break as many as 250,000 POWs out of camps across the country in 1944 and attack Britain from within were sent to Camp 21 at Comrie. These included Feldwebel Wolfgang Rosterg, a known anti-Nazi who was sent by mistake He was lynched and five of the prisoners were hanged at Pentonville Prison for his murder the largest multiple execution in 20th-century Britai


Camp No. 36 Hartwell Dog Track

Stone - The camp was known to house Italian prisoners from 1942 to 1946 and consisted mostly of tents with one hut a 1946 RAF aerial photo of the site shows camp buildings at Grid reference SP797121 51.8018°N 0.8454°W, on what is now the Meadoway housing estate adjacent to Sedrup Lane remains of the camp were still evident on the site in the 1950s.

Eden Camp Museum

North Yorkshire in England Eden Camp Modern History Theme Museum is a large Second World War-related museum near Malton in North Yorkshire in England it occupies a former Second World War prisoner-of-war camp of 33 huts Early 1942: The War Office identified and requisitioned the site from Fitzwilliam Estates. Tents were established inside a barbed wire enclosure.

Mid-1943: By then a permanent camp was completed and the first Italian prisoners of war were moved in.

End of 1943: By then the Italian prisoners of war were moved out.

Early 1944: The camp provided accommodation for Polish forces amassed in the North Yorkshire area in preparation for an invasion of Europe.

Mid-1944: By then the first German prisoners of war arrived at Eden Camp.

Early 1949: The last German prisoner of war left the camp.

Grizedale Hall

Lake District in Cumbria - During World War II Grizedale Hall was commandeered by the War Office and became officially known as No 1 POW Camp (Officers) Grizedale Hall, to hold the most elite of German P.O.W.'s like Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt. As many of the prisoners were rescued survivors from sunken U-boats, it also became known as the "U-Boat Hotel". A well-known prisoner was Otto Kretschmer, Germany's most successful U-boat captain until his capture. The fighter pilot Franz Baron von Werra was initially held there and made a famous escape attempt in late 1940, inspiring the story of the 1957 film The One That Got Away

Harperley POW Camp 93

Crook County Durham Harperley POW Camp 93 is a surviving purpose-built World War II Prisoner of War(PoW) camp built to accommodate up to 1,400 inmates it was built, initially, in 1943 by Italian POWs


Island Farm

Bridgend South Wales - Island Farm was designated as Camp 198 and was to hold almost 2,000 prisoners. The first POWs were a mixed bag of Italian and German troops, but the War Office soon decided that the camp was too comfortable for enlisted men and that German officers should be held there. The first officer prisoners arrived in November 1944.The POWs soon turned their efforts to escape. Two tunnels were dug in the camp, but the first was discovered in January 1945. The second tunnel escaped detection and on the night of 11 March 1945, 67, 70, or 84 prisoners escaped. All were recaptured; some were found within a few miles of the camp. Others travelled much further, to places like Birmingham and Southampton, over 150 miles (240 km) away.Only three weeks after the escape, on 31 March 1945, the authorities suddenly transferred all 1,600 officers out of Island Farm Camp. It was then designated Special Camp Eleven and was prepared to receive senior German officers, many of whom had been captured in France and were awaiting trial at Nuremberg. In all there were 160 officers holding the rank of general, admiral, or field marshal, including a number of Hitler's closest advisers World War II.

Lodge Farm POW Camp

Lodge farm, also known as Prisoner of War Camp No. 25 was located close to Farncombe Down When it first opened it held Italians captured during the early stages of the North African Campaign. POWs began to arrive in August 1941 and were set to work in fields nearby.On 26th June 1945 Lodge Farm Camp was re-classified for use by German POWs. A few Italian's remained and were kept in a separate compound. Most of the Germans had been captured in the Channel Islands. Some of the prisoners were to work on the Lambourn Railway erecting concrete post

Lodge Moor

City of Sheffield, England - There was a prisoner of war camp here in World War I and World War II, a notable prisoner held from 1918 to 1919 was then U-boat captain Karl Dönitz, whom Hitler later chose as his successor to the position of Führer, a position which Dönitz fulfilled in the last days of the Second World War.

Pingley POW Camp

Brigg Lincolnshire - Pingley POW camp is one of the few prisoner of war camps in the United Kingdom that remains in good condition unlike the relatively nearby Eden Camp which is preserved as a Second World War museum, Pingley Camp lies in a semi derelict state in the grounds of Pingley Farm, the camp was used to house mainly Italian prisoners of war, though Germans were also held there. After the war the camp was used as an emergency sheltered housing under the name Pingley Farm Hostel. The original buildings used and constructed by the prisoners are situated towards the rear of the site entrance and remain in bad condition the brick buildings at the front of the site are in fairly good condition, and have post war modifications dating from around 1950–1980

POW Camp 115

Whitecross St. Columb Major - POW Camp 115 was a prisoner of war camp during World War II around a thousand prisoners were held there originally these were Italians, but later most of them were moved out and it held German POWs The Italians built their own elaborately decorated church with an ornate altar, but the latter was later destroyed by the German POWs. Besides the church, the inmates were allowed to level ground and construct a football pitch the prisoners were organised into five teams and ran their own league according to an Italian POW they were well treated and given the same food as the local people

POW Camp: No.665 Cross Keys

In 1941 the British Army established a 300 person Prisoner of War camp on a northern part of the site at Burnshill, designated POW Camp No.665 Cross Keys Initially housing Italian Army prisoners from the Western Desert Campaign it later housed German prisoners post the Battle of Normandy all prisoners stationed there were considered a low security risk, and were offered work within the supplies depot, which came with resultant generous supplies of food and rations, or on the various local farms. The Italians were particularly popular with the local people, often offering sweets and fruit to the local children the German prisoners were also popular, as they had been vetted and deemed non-Nazis.

Sheriffhales

Shropshire England - Sheriffhales was the site of the World War II POW Camp 71, located along the drive to Lilleshall Hall.

Somerhill House

Tonbridge Kent United Kingdom Somerhill housed a Prisoner of War camp, Prisoner of War Camp No. 40, during the Second World War,

Toft Hall

Toft Cheshire - During the Second World War Toft Hall was the site of a prisoner of war camp

Windlestone Hall

Rushyford County Durham England - The house and estate were used as a prisoner of war camp during World War II, a satellite camp of Harperley POW Camp 93.

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United States of America

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Camp Adair

Corvallis Oregon - From 1944–1946 Camp Adair served as a prisoner-of-war camp, housing German and Italian POWs

Camp Albuquerque

Camp Albuquerque was an American World War II POW camp in Albuquerque, New Mexico that housed Italian and German prisoners of war from this branch camp, the POWs did mostly farm labor, from 1943 to 1946. Most of these POWs were transferred from Camp Roswell, which was a base or main POW camp for New Mexico. Camp Lordsburg, New Mexico, and Camp El Paso, Texas, were also base camps prisoners were transferred to Camp Albuquerque because it was closer to their work sites these main and branch camps were part of a POW camp system spread across much of the United States. At its World War II peak almost 426,000 prisoners 371,683 German, 50,273 Italian, and 3,915 Japanese were held in the United States. Beginning with 1,881 POWs in the United States at the end of 1942, was up to 172,879 by the end of 1943, and peaked at 425,871 on VE Day.Shifting prisoner populations and transfers were routine this was done to remove pro-Nazi troublemakers, and to help break up escape attempts and their all tunnel digging teams still three Germans did escape from Camp Albuquerque, but two were soon recaptured.At peak occupancy, sometime in 1945, there were 171 German POWs in branch Camp Albuquerque they worked on the various farms from Los Lunas to Corrales, helping in particular with the harvest in the fall.

Camp Aliceville

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 3,000 and 6,000 German prisoners at any one time.According to Randy Wall, fewer than 10 percent of all German POWs were devoted Nazis in many American POW camps, including Aliceville, these prisoners harrassed, injured, or killed prisoners who they thought had become too comfortable with their American captors.

Camp Aliceville doctor Stephen Fleck said that Most of the murders were accomplished with bare hands or some cooking utensil...they cold-bloodedly killed either with knives or strangling during the night we probably had two or three such deaths a month...anybody whom they suspected of wavering in his Nazi enthusiasm.

Nobody would squeal, because the squealer would likely meet a similar fate to protect prisoners from such violence, American military authorities established a number of so-called segregation camps, to which ardent Nazis could be sent although it began as an ordinary POW camp, by 1944 Aliceville had become a segregation camp itself.There were over 2000 escape attempts made by German POWs held in American camps during the war, and Aliceville was no exception one group of six prisoners at Aliceville made it as far as Memphis, Tennessee, where they were captured by the FBI after stealing a car.

Camp Ashby

Camp Ashby in the Thalia community of Princess Anne County, Virginia was the largest Prisoner of War camp in South Hampton Roads during World War II. It housed 6,000 German troops, many of Adolf Hitler's Afrika Corps who had been captured in North Africa during the closing years of World War II.


Camp Atlanta

During World War II Camp Atlanta was established next to the town as an Allied Prisoner of War camp for German P.O.W.s. As with many prisoner camps, the site was chosen because it was located well into the interior of the United States. The site housed 3,000 German prisoners, most of whom had been captured in the North African Campaign, in three compounds The first 250 German prisoners arrived in December, unannounced to anyone but the officer in command at the camp. On a Saturday morning early in February 1944, 830 more arrived, making the total number of prisoners 1080. The camp had its own train stop across from the prison gates, a chapel, a theater, a hospital, post exchange, a bakery, a laundry, and repair shops for all purposes. A 12-piece drum and bugle corps made up from the military men marched in the Holdrege Memorial Day parade in 1944. A ball club was organized to compete with the nearby Indianola P.O.W. camp.Prisoners were hired out to local farms to help retrieve the increased crop production demanded by the war. More than 30 local farmers sought assistance, paying the government for work completed by the P.O.W.s

Camp Beaver Dam

Camp Beaver Dam was an American World War II prisoner of war camp in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin during the summer of 1944 the camp held 300 German prisoners of war in a tent city encampment where the Wayland Academy field house now stands

Camp Butner

Camp Butner was a United States Army installation in Butner, North Carolina during World War II. It was named after Army General Henry W. Butner part of it was used as a POW-Camp for German prisoners of war in the United States.

Camp Clinton

Camp Clinton was a World War II prisoner of war facility located in Clinton, Mississippi just off present-day McRaven Road, east of Springridge Road Camp Clinton was home to 3,000 German and Italian POWs, most of whom had been captured in Africa and were members of the Afrika Korps. Camp Clinton also housed several dozen German generals and admirals, including Afrika Korps commander Hans-Jürgen von Arnim and Wehrmacht general Ferdinand Neuling. The prisoners at Camp Clinton provided labor to build the Mississippi River Basin Model, a one-square-mile working replica model of the Mississippi River and its tributaries, which the United States Army Corps of Engineers used for planning flood control projects

Camp Concordia

Camp Concordia was a prisoner-of-war camp that operated from 1943-1945. Its location is two miles north and one mile east of Concordia, Kansas. The camp was used primarily for German Army prisoners during World War II who were captured in battles that took place in Africa.Camp Concordia was the largest POW camp in Kansas, holding over 4,000 prisoners some sources cite as high as 8,000 prisoners.The camp consisted of a complex of 300 buildings and was staffed by 800 United States soldier ,difficulties between POWs and local residents were few, and in fact friendships formed,only a handful of escape attempts occurred none successful." Life at the camp was easy compared with the war in Europe prisoners played outdoor sports listened to band performances and took courses offered by the University of Kansas.

Famous prisoners

Harald Deilmann, architect and author.

Reinhard Mohn, owner of the transnational media corporation Bertelsmann AG

Karl Dietrich Bracher, historian.

The prisoners headed back to Germany in the autumn of 1945, some of them harboring pleasant memories of Kansas. Franz Kramer of Gundelfingen, Germany, said: "There was no reason to criticize American authorities. The prisoners felt that they were well treated. We learned a little of the American way of life and saw part of the vast country

Camp Fannin

Camp Fannin was a U.S. Army Infantry Replacement Training Center and POW Camp located near Tyler, TX. It was opened in 1943 and only operated for four years before closing in 1946.

Camp Forrest

Camp Forrest officially became a prisoner of war camp May 12, 1942 the camp housed Italian and German POWs prisoners became laborers at Camp Forrest in the hospitals and on farms in the local community,initially the camp held civilian detainees who were arrested at the outbreak of the war under a program called Alien Enemy Control many of these internees were incarcerated without legal process. In 1943 Camp Forrest internees were transferred to other Internment Camps to make room for actual POWs captured on the field of battle

Camp Houlton

Camp Houlton was a United States prisoner-of-war camp that operated from October 1944 to May 1946 at the former Houlton Army Air Base in Houlton, Maine. The camp was used to house more than 1,100 German prisoners-of-war during World War II. Some of the prisoners were allowed to work on local farms they received scrip for their efforts, which could be redeemed for goods at the camp store

Camp Livingston

During World War II, thousands of Japanese, German and Italian prisoners of war were kept in internment camps at Camp Livingston and Camp Claiborne in 1942, the first Japanese POW of the war, Kazuo Sakamaki arrived at Camp Livingston. Sakamaki was the only surviving crewman of a mini-submarine used in the attack on Pearl Harbor, and was captured by Corporal David Akui after abandoning his sub, which had run aground. The internees at the camps were used to supply logging and farm labor in the area. There was a P.O.W. cemetery located within Camp Livingston and in 1947 the headstones were relocated to Fort Sam Houston and the bodies of the P.O.W.s were left in the ground unmarked where they remain today.

Camp Lockett

Prisoner of war camp established in 1944 the convalescent hospital was the establishment of the prisoner of war camp in the 28th Cavalry Regiment area. The POW camp a branch of the Riverside County Camp Haan housed Italian and German prisoners of war, who worked in all phases of hospital operation including services, maintenance, and construction

Camp Myles Standish

Taunton, Massachusetts - German soldiers who were captured during the war were detained at this camp. Also, Italian soldiers were detained there as well although they were considered 'co-belligerents' because Italy had surrendered by the time the Italian soldiers arrived at Camp Myles Standish the camp closed in January 1946 following World War II.

Fort Chaffee Maneuver Training Center

During World War II, in addition to providing a training facility for US soldiers, Fort Chaffee served as a POW camp, housing 3000 German prisoners of war

Fort Missoula

During World War II, Fort Missoula housed a prison camp for Italian POWs, who called the area Bella Vista Fort Missoula housed over 1,200 Italian internees, who referred to the fort as "Camp Bella Vista." The Italians worked on area farms, fought forest fires, and worked in Missoula until they were released in 1944. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, 650 Japanese-American men who were considered high risk were interned at the camp. These men were questioned and quickly transferred to other internment camps the camp was used as a prison for military personnel accused of military crimes and other personnel awaiting court-martial following World War





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We need to add German POW camps WII. Would like to work on this.
posted by Michael Sabot
I've just drifted across to this page and OMG wow people!

What a FANTASTIC resource!

Thankyou for your beautiful work here.

posted by Trace Allison