Aliceville, Alabama
There have been, over the years, some newspaper articles and a documentary by Alabama Public Television, and there have been a couple of reunions of American guards and German prisoners, but mostly the camp has faded into the past.

Cook begins with a description of the sleepy town of Aliceville, hot in summer, dusty, in places swampy, complete with mosquitoes, and of the Parker farm of 400 acres, which was taken by the Army Corps of Engineers, along with another 400 belonging to six other sellers, as the site for the camp.

The U. S. Army, in late 1942, had begun the North Africa Campaign, and as German prisoners were captured there, it was deemed impractical and dangerous to keep them in Great Britain. By the summer of 1943, seventy-two camps had been built in the U.S., and by mid-1945 there were 150 camps and 340 "branch" or work camps.

By May 1943, Aliceville was a large camp, with 400 buildings holding a maximum of 6,000 prisoners, with one thousand U. S. military personnel. There would be a total of 250,000 captured Germans and Italians from North Africa.

A couple of things about the camp that I found surprising were, one, that our POW camps followed the Geneva Conventions to the letter. The German prisoners got the same food, shelter, medical care, even the same number of square feet of living space as the MPs. This was done in hopes that the Germans would treat U.S. prisoners similarly. And two, inside the camps, true believer Nazis, usually NCO's, often terrorized non-Nazi German soldiers, and some sorting and sifting had to occur, putting the hard-core Nazis in one place and conscripted, nonpolitical or resisting soldiers in another.

The prisoners had bands, organized musical evenings, wrote poetry and painted, ran English and French classes, put on plays, and even had a camp newspaper. On April 20th, prisoners?here in the United States?were even allowed to celebrate Hitler's birthday! German prisoners captured at the Russian front were not so lucky.

Once Allied troops had entered Germany and were liberating German stalags and, especially, after the discovery of the death camps, conditions got a lot worse in places like Aliceville. American anger at how badly our soldiers had been treated was enormous. I was in fact surprised to learn that many German POWs were put on labor battalions here and in Belgium, France, and Britain, in America mainly in agriculture and logging, but on the Continent, in mines and in construction. There was a huge labor shortage everywhere, and many Germans did not get home for a year or two after the surrender.

Fort Hunt, Va.,
[A] secret World War II interrogation camp at Fort Hunt, Va., not far from the Pentagon. During and right after the war, thousands of top German prisoners were questioned there about troop movements and scientific advances.

"We had 250 German war prisoners underneath. They were down underground at Fort Hunt."

Most veterans remember the prisoners being kept above ground. Bies doesn't really know whether some might have been kept underground. There are so few records.

Wisconsin
About 20,000 prisoners of war were housed in Wisconsin during World War II. [Their] communities had camps for the Germans, Japanese, Italians and others.


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