Between 1943 and 1945 nearly fifty thousand German prisoners of war, mostly from the German Afrika Korps, lived and worked at seventy POW camps across Texas. Camp Hearne, located on the outskirts of rural Hearne, Texas, was one of the first and largest POW camps in the United States. Now Michael R.
Stalag Wisconsin: Inside WWII Prisoner of War Camps
β Scribed by Betty Cowley
- Publisher
- Lisa Loucks Christenson Publishing, LLC
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 316
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Subjects
Wisconsin
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