When the war ended in 1945, the US began transporting the prisoners back to their home countries and by 1946 they had all been repatriated. 200 and 300 PWs were confined there. Prisoners were routinely beaten, starved and abused and forced to work in mines and war-related factories in clear violation of the Geneva Conventions. The men were foundguilty and sentenced to death. It first appeared in the PMG reports on June1, 1944, and last appeared on June 16, 1944, although it may have actually opened as early as May 1, 1944. professionals, bureaucrats and businessmen, said Corbett. a kangaroo court one night and found him guilty. Originally a branch of the AlvaPW camp, it later became a branch of the Ft. Reno PW camp. the Santa Fe Railroad's ice plant at Waynoka, cut underbrush and timber in the basin of Lake Texoma, served as Eight PWs escaped from this camp, and four men died and are now buried Caddo to Tonkawa, and each would have its own unique history. Some PWs from the ChickashaPW Camp may have worked at the hospital before this camp was established, working in maintenance. 1, 1944, and last appeared on June 16, 1944, although it may have actually opened as early as May 1, 1944. Tinker Air Force Base was one of the bases that benefited from funding. At each camp, companies of U.S. Army This camp was located north of Electric Street and west of 15th Street on the north side of McAlester in what would Each compound contained barracks, latrines, and mess halls to accommodate up to one thousand men. By mid-May 1946 the last prisoners left Oklahoma. Charles W. Eeds was a member of the 48th Materiel Squadron in the Philippines when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands in December 1941. There were both branch and base POW camps in Oklahoma. It opened on October 20, 1944, and last appeared in thePMG reports on November 1, 1945. A book, "The Killing of Corporal Kunze," by Wilma Trummel Parnell was published in 1981. Prisoner-of-war camps in the United States during World War II. This camp was located adjacent to the town of Gene Autry, thirteen miles northeast of Ardmore.It first appeared in the PMG reports on June 1, 1945, and last appeared on November 1, 1945. A branch of the Alva PW Camp, ithosed about 100 PWs. Vol 17, Iss 2 Oklahoma - Prisoner of War Camps in Oklahoma dot Oklahoma in WWII. All rights reserved. and two more are buried at Ft. Sill. Thiscamp was located one-half mile north of Waynoka in the Santa Fe Railroad yards at the ice plant. Forced to carry out slave labour on a starvation diet and in a hostile environment, many died of malnutrition or disease. Oklahoma Army National Guard (OKARNG), acquired 23,515 acres to establish Camp Gruber as a state-operated training It hada capacity of about 6,000, but never held more than 4,850. BIOG: Pryor November 1944 to March 1945; no numbers listed. Located They helda kangaroo court one night and found him guilty. The dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagaski. 90-91). The War Relocation Authority provided education through high school for all school-age residents. were sent to Levinworth, where they were later hung. Thirteen escapes were reported, and fivePWs died in the camp, from natural causes and one from suicide. The Nazis caused a lot of problems Reports ofnine escapes have been found. The story of prisoner of war camps in Oklahoma actually predates the war, for as Americanleaders anticipated World War II, they developed plans for control of more than 100,000 enemy aliens living inthe Untied States, all of whom would have to be interned in case of war. At one point in World War II approximately 22,000 German and Italian troops, the equivalent of one and a half infantry divisions, were held as prisoners of war in Oklahoma. Originallya branch of the Alva PW Camp, it later became a branch of the Camp Gruber PW Camp. - housing around 5,000 Nazi Party members. McAlester Alien Internment CampThis camp was located north of Electric Street and west of 15th Street on the north side of McAlester in what wouldlater become the McAlester PW Camp. It had a capacity of 3,000, but at one timethere were 3,280 PWs confined there. It first appeared inthe PMG reports on August 16, 1944, and last appeared on November 16, 1945. A newspaper account indicates He said that many of the German POWs came back to the United States in the 80s and 90s and always visited thesites of the camps in which they stayed. These incidents, combined with war wounds,injuries, suicide, or disease, took the lives of forty-six captives. It first appeared in the PMG reports on August 30, 1943, and last appeared on September 1, 1945. The program, of course, did not function without hitches, said Corbett. Kunze's note ended up with camp senior leader, Senior Sergeant Walter Beyer, a hardened Nazi. He went on to explain that the infamous German military leader, Erwin Rommel, led these troops, which became known camp was located four miles east of Hickory at the Horseshoe Ranch. Thiscamp, a work camp from the McAlester PW Camp, was located in the Municipal Building at the northeast corner ofMain and Evans streets in Seminole. The Ft. Sill Cemetery holds one enemy alien and one German PW who died there. training. No Japanese prisoners were brought here, despite the fact that some buildings in the POW camps were called Japanese barracks. Will Rogers PW CampThis During the 1929 Geneva Convention, Some of the concrete and stone monuments that were built by the PWs are also still standing there. This camp, a mobile work camp from the Camp Chaffee (Arkansas) PW Camp, was located at North Chickasha Street north Most of the pre-existing buildings that were usedat some of the branch camps still stand, but it is difficult to imagine them as being used as a PW camp. Borden General Hospital, Chickasha, (a branch of the Fort Reno camp) April 1945 to May 1945; 100. It opened on October 30, 1943, and closed in the fall of 1945. Most enemy prisoners were housed in base camps consisting of one or more compounds. Prisoners had friendly interaction with local civilians and sometimes were allowed outside the camps without guards on the honor system (Black American guards noted that German prisoners could visit restaurants that they could not because of Jim Crow laws. After the captives arrived, at least twenty-four branch camps, outposts to house temporary POW labor was used to harvest labor-intensive cash crops such as peanuts, cotton, and peaches. Placedat an explosives plant, there was a fear that escaping PWs might commit sabotage. The prison started accepting internees on March 30, 1942 and was located four miles north of Stringtown, on the west side of highway 69. to teach the Germans about democracy, civil liberties and other beliefs that our country was based upon. The only PWs who It was a hospital for American servicemen until August 1, 1944, when it became Between twenty and forty PWs were confined there, workingas ranch hands. The present camp coverseighty-seven square miles. The German During World War II federal officials located enemy prisoner of war (POW) camps in Oklahoma. Reports of three escapes andone death have been located. During World War II federal officials located enemy prisoner of war (POW) camps in began a crash building program. The five non-commissioned officers, the magazine says, "proudlyadmitted at their trial -- the first American court-martial involving a capital offense by German prisoners ofwar -- that they killed Cpl. It first appearedin the PMG reports on July 19, 1943, and last appeared on April 15, 1946. About 100 PWswere confined there. Caddo PW Camp Thiscamp, located in the school gymnasium at Caddo, was a work camp sent out from the Stringtown PW Camp. John Witherspoon ErvinJulia Ervin Woods ErvinSubmitted to Genealogy Trails by Linda Craig, The above pictures are of the Fort Reno Cemetery and headstone of Johannes Kunze (German) and Giulio Zamboni (Italian). POWs are entitled to special protections. There were army hospitals located in both Chickasha (Borden General Hospital)and Okmulgee (Glennan General Hospital) as well. Many prisoners did make it home in 18 to 24 months, Lazarus said. About 200 PWs were confinedthere, and two PWs escaped before being recaptured in Sallisaw. The camp had a capacity of 600,but on May 1, 1944, there were only 301 PWs confined there. In November 1943 rioting prisoners at Camp Tonkawa Corps of Engineers. What is Prisoners Of War? The POW camps at Fort Sill, McAlester and Stringtown had been set up. Egypt and in May 1943, the African Corp surrendered. Terry Paul Wilson, "The Afrika Korps in Oklahoma: Fort Reno's Prisoner of War Compound," The Chronicles of Oklahoma 52 (Fall 1974). The magazine adds Gunther also had been Reports of two escapes and one PW death have been Originally a branch of the AlvaPW camp, it later became a branch of the Ft. Reno PW camp. In autumn 1945 repatriation of prisoners of war began as federal officials transferredcaptives to East Coast ports. a short distance south of Powell, a small community about three miles east of Lebanon and about eight miles southwest assigned soldiers to specific tasks, etc. Camp Ashby Highway Marker Dedication Watch on If you're curious to visit the site of the former POW camp, it's located at the Willis Furniture Store Complex. Because many PWs with serious injuries or sicknesses were assigned there, twenty-eightdeaths were reported - twenty-two PWs died from natural cause and six died as the result of battle wounds. During World War II federal officials located enemy prisoner of war (POW) camps in Oklahoma. Oklahoma. From 1942-1945, more than 400,000 POWs, mostly German, were housed in some 500 POW camps located in this country. Eufaula date and number of prisoners unknown. In 1945 the Eighty-sixth Infantry "Blackhawk" Division was stationed This was the only maximum security camp in the entire program (which This camp, a branch of the Ft. Reno PW Camp, was located at the Borden General Hospital on the west side of Chickasha.It first appeared in the PMG reports on April 16, 1945, and last appeared on May 1, 1945. The road is in an area called the POW Camp Recreation Area in the De Soto National Forest. (Bioby Kit and Morgan Benson). The POW camp at Tonkawa, about 50 miles northeast of Enid, was a branch camp that held a number of prisoners. The camps were essentially a little For more information about this and other programs and exhibits, contact the museum at 256-6136, or visit them 2. Chickasha (first a branch of the Alva camp and later of the Fort Reno camp) November 1944 to November 1945; 400. Seventy-fiveto eighty PWs were confined there. June 1, 1945. In November 1942, at the Tonkawa camp, a prisoner was killed by the other In November 1943 rioting prisoners at Camp Tonkawakilled one of their own. Just recently, I made a committed effort to do so. LXIV, No. An article by Warner in "The Chronicles of Oklahoma," the Spring 1986 edition, lists many of the camps and offers brief history on some. MPs questioned the 200 German POWs, and five who had blood on their uniforms were arrested and charged with the It first appeared in the PMG reports on July 19, 1943, and last appeared on January 1, 1944. appeared in the PMG reports in February, 1944 and last appeared on April 15, 1946. 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. "He was sent to a camp for Nazi supporters in Alva, Oklahoma." Of the tens of thousands of POWs in the United States during World War II, only 2,222, less than 1 percent, tried to escape, and. , What did Oklahoma do to prisoners of war? Article from the "Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture" Branch camps and internments in Oklahoma included Waynoka, Tonkawa, Chickasha, Hobart, Tipton, Pauls Valley, Hickory,Stringtown, Tishomingo, Ardmore, Powell, Caddo, Konawa, Wewoka, Seminole, Wetumka, Okemah, Morris, Bixby, Porter,Haskell, Stilwell, Sallisaw, and Eufaula. camp, called a Nazilager by many PWs in It opened on October 20, 1944, and last appeared in thePMG reports on November 1, 1945. Thiscamp was located north of highway 60 and west of Public Street in the southeast quarter of Section 26 on the northside of Tonkawa. Each compound held about 1,000 prisoners, divided into companies of about 250-men each. Members of chambersof commerce and local politicians lobbied representatives and senators to obtain appropriations for federal projects.None of the communities specifically sought a prisoner of war camp, but several received them. to eighty PWs were confined there. POW Camp Road is a typical graded gravel road in the Gulf Coastal Plains of southern Mississippi. After the war was over, the POWs were sent back to Germany, in accordance with the Geneva Convention. prisoners of war and partially staffed it with captured enemy medical personnel. The prisoners of war must observe strict military discipline in the camp and outside the camp. Thiscamp was located on the far west side of the Ft. Sill Military Reservation and south of Randolph Road. About 200 PWs were confined It opened on October 20, 1944, and last appeared in the opened on December 1, 1943, closed on December 11, 1945, and was a branch of the Camp Gruber PW Camp. This map was published in "The Chronicles of Oklahoma" Spring 1986 as part of an article authored by Richard S. Warner. It was a branch of the Ft. Reno PW Camp and about 225 PWswere confined there. In 1967 the Oklahoma Military Department, by This A branch of the Ft. Sill A barbershop in Woodward with a unique history; it was a guard shack at a World War II POW camp, 4. Reports of two escapes and one PW death have beenfound. for Allied soldiers, but ultimately all negotiations failed. A machinist from the city of Hamburg, Germany, Kunze was drafted into the German Army in 1940 and sent to the Afrika It first appeared in the PMG reports on July 19, 1943, and last appeared on January 1, 1944. It first In 1943 the Forty-second Infantry "Rainbow" Division was reactivated at Gruber. The prisoners were paid both by the government at the end of their imprisonment and alsoreceived an extra $1.80 per day for their work. As many as 20,000 German POWs were brought to Oklahoma during World War Two and held at eight main camps and about two dozen branch camps chosen for their remoteness from urban areas for security reasons. A base camp for a number of branch camps, it had a capacity of 5,750, but the greatest number of PWsconfined there was 4,702 on October 3, 1945. , Where were the housed German POWs during WWII? In addition, leaders in communities across the state actively recruited federal war facilities to bolster their towns' economies. The dates of its existence are , Why did the Japanese treat POWs so badly? About 300 PWs were confinedthere. It opened on April 29, 1943, and last appeared in the PMG reports on The Oklahoma National Guard's Camp Gruber Maneuver Training Center is located 14 miles southeast of Muskogee, Oklahoma, on Oklahoma Route 10 in the Cookson Hills. 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). Camp Concordia at its peak had 304 buildings including a 177 bed hospital, fire Dept, warehouses, Cold storage, and officers club, and barracks, mess halls and . A base camp, it had a capacityof 2,965, but the greatest number of PWs confined there was 1,834 on July 16, 1945. Reports seemto indicate that it opened in early July 1943, existing only for about one month. injuries, suicide, or disease, took the lives of forty-six captives. The large concrete water towers which doubled as guard towers at the camps at Alva, Ft. Reno, and Tonkawa a hospital for the treatment of PWs and a branch of the camp Gruber PW camp. Bodies of some who died in the United States were shipped home. officials obtained use of vacant dormitories built for employees of the Oklahoma Ordnance Works at Pryor. thought working for the Americans was somehow aiding the war effort. While the hospital was usedfor the treatment of Only PWs, it specialized in amputations, neurosurgery, chest surgery, plastic surgery, andtuberculosis treatment. The Alva camp was a special camp for holding Nazis andNazi sympathizers, and there are accounts of twenty-one escapes. There were army hospitals located in both Chickasha (Borden General Hospital) What were the two famous fighting divisions from Oklahoma? By 1953 virtually the entire 1942 reservation was in federal hands. Jan 31-(AP)-Newsweek magazine says in its Feb. 5 issue that five German prisoners of war have been sentencedto death by court-martial for killing a fellow prisoner at Camp Tonkawa, Okla., Nov. 5, 1943, and are awaiting"their doom in a federal penitentiary." It last appeared in the PMG reports on august 1, 1944. Located in the Old First National Bank Building in Madill, this camp opened on April 29, 1943,and closed on April 1, 1944. Thiscamp was locatd in the National Guard Armory on the southwest corner of Creek and Spruce streets in Haskell. and headstone of Submit a Correction It was a branch of there, and two PWs escaped before being recaptured in Sallisaw. and sometimes an officers' club as well as a theater completed the camp. The other died from natural causes. Few landmarks remain. They were slums luxury ranging from the cities to the country. The five men were hung at Fort Leavenworth MilitaryPenitentiary in July 1945, where they had been kept after conviction, and are buried in the Fort Leavenworth MilitaryCemetery. He was the pilot of a mini-sub that damaged outside of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. In 1935 there was a walkout, followed by another in 1936, both over conditions. informed the guards that there was a riot going on and when they got into the camp, they found the man beaten to While the hospital was used Michigan Prisoner of War Camps No reports of any escapes have beenlocated, but two German aliens died at the camp and are buried at Ft. Reno.Sources used: [written by Richard S. Warner - The Chronicles of Oklahoma,Vol. The greatest is near Braggs at the location of the Camp Gruber PW Camp. Seven posts housed enlisted men, and officers lived in quarters at Pryor. 1943. However, POW Camp Road is not about the road itself. The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders | Full Episode | Hometown Tragedy: A True-Crime Series | Very Local, 2. In June 1942, Operation Torch - the invasion of Africa - began and in November of that same year, troops landed Thiswork camp from the Camp Chaffee PW Camp was located at Candy Mink Springs about five miles southwest of Stilwell.It first appeared in the PMG reports on June 16, 1944, and last appeared on July 8, 1944. Photo by Buel White of the Post-Dispatch. Thiscamp was located north of the swimming pool that is east of Jefferson Street and north of Iris Street in NortheastHobart. Itdid not appear in the PMG reports, but the fact of its use comes from interviews. a branch of the Camp Howze PW Camp. 4 reviews of POW Camp Concordia Museum "A very quiet but important piece of Kansas' WW2 and agriculture history! In autumn 1945 repatriation of prisoners of war began as federal officials transferredcaptives to East Coast ports. POW Camp In Alva, Woods, Oklahoma. Plaque Text: POW marker committee Evelyn Scoles Coyle Rex D. Ackerson Helen Furber Cathey Roy C. Fath Ardmore Army Air Field (a branch of the Camp Howze, Texas, POW camp) June 1945 to November 1945; 300. in Morocco and Algeria. Glennan General Hospital PW CampThis camp was located on what is now the grounds of Okmulgee Tech, south of Industrial Drive and east of MissionRoad on the east side of Okmulgee. In November 1943, a disturbance among the prisoners resulted in the death of a German soldier. It had a capacity of 600 and was usually kept full. Five PWs died while interned there, includingEmil Minotti who was shot to death in an escape attempt. At the same time, Corbett said, the British were still in Egypt. Members of chambers escapes took place, but authorities recaptured all fugitives. Konawa (a work camp from the McAlester camp) October 1943 to the fall of 1945; 80. A machinist from the city of Hamburg, Germany, Kunze was drafted into the German Army in 1940 and sent to the AfrikaKorps in Tunisia, North Africa. It's a Small size geocache, with difficulty of 1.5, terrain of 2. They selected Oklahoma because the state met the basic requirements established by the Office of theProvost Marshal General, the U.S. Army agency responsible for the POW program. During a war, a belligerent state may capture or imprison someone as a prisoner of war (POW). Most enemy prisoners were housed in base camps consisting of one or more compounds. nine escapes have been found. Several of them picked cotton, plowed fields, farmed, worked in ice plantsor at alfalfa dryers. 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. - Acoustic & Electric, Best Crossword Puzzle Dictionaries: Online and In Print, Why were prisoners of war camps in Oklahoma? Emil Minotti who was shot to death in an escape attempt. other camps, was located one mile south of Alva on the west side of highway 281 on land that is now used for the Corbett explained that around 1937, before the United States even entered the war, the government began to plan It was originally a branch of the Madill Provisional Horst Cunther. About 270 PWs were confined there. It had a capacity of 600 and was usually kept full. camp, a work camp from the McAlester PW Camp, was located in the National Guard Armory, three blocks north of Main Street on North State Street in Konawa. Data from the "Oklahoma Genealogical Society Quarterly", Vol. Thiscamp was located west of South Mingo Road at 136th Street and north of the Arkansas River from Bixby. Thiscamp was located in the NYA building at the fairgrounds on the east side of Wewoka. New Plains Review is published semiannually in the spring and fall by the University of Central Oklahoma and is staffed by faculty and students. Woods Ervin It hada capacity of about 6,000, but never held more than 4,850. Most of the land was returned to private ownership or publicuse. at some of the branch camps still stand, but it is difficult to imagine them as being used as a PW camp. It was a branch of the Ft. Reno PW Camp and about 225 PWs in this state. The majority of the camps were located in the Midwest, South, and Southwest, and the biggest contingency of POWs 372,000 were German. "Tonkawa POW Camp," Vertical File, Northern Oklahoma College Library, Northern Oklahoma College, Tonkawa. Located in the Old First National Bank Building in Madill, this camp opened on April 29, 1943,and closed on April 1, 1944. Desiring to stay in the US after the war, he began passing notes of information on German activitiesto the American doctor when he attended sick call. The POWs that came to Oklahoma couldnt believe that they could ride a train for over four days and still bein the same country - they were amazed at how big the United States was, said Corbett. 11, No.2, June 1966. In 1943 the Forty-second Infantry "Rainbow"Division was reactivated at Gruber. Hobart PW Camp Thiscamp was located north of the swimming pool that is east of Jefferson Street and north of Iris Street in NortheastHobart. After the Allies invaded France in 1944, the camps received an influx of soldiers captured in Europe. Four men escaped. Submitted to Genealogy Trails by Linda Craig, The above pictures are of the Fort Reno Cemetery The present camp coverseighty-seven square miles. In the later months of its operation,it held convalescing patients from the Glennan General Hospital PW Camp. The dates of its existence arenot known, but it was probably a work camp similar to the one at Caddo. Outside the compound It was a hospital for American servicemen until August 1, 1944, when it becamea hospital for the treatment of PWs and a branch of the camp Gruber PW camp. A base camp, its official capacity was1,020, but on May 16, 1945, there were 1,523 PWs confined there. still in use around the state. 11, No. Tipton (a branch camp of Fort Sill for die-hard Nazis) October 1944 to November 1945; 276. Morris (first a work camp from McAlester and later a branch of Camp Gruber) November 1944 to November 1945; 40. the area prior to then, but they would have been trucked in daily from another camp in the area. 1,020, but on May 16, 1945, there were 1,523 PWs confined there. By 1953 virtually the entire 1942 reservation was in federal hands. , What was life like for the POWs in the camps? The base camps were located Stringtown PW CampThiscamp was located at the Stringtown Correctional Facility, the same location of the Stringtown Alien InternmentCamp. The POW camps were all constructed with the same lay-out and design. evidence of their existence, but three of the four aliens who died while imprisoned in Oklahoma still lie in cemeteries However, camp school houses were crowded, with a student-teacher ratio of up to 48:1 in elementary schools and 35:1 for secondary schools. permanent camps were put under construction or remodeling at Alva, McAlester, Stringtown,and Tonkawa. A branch of theCamp Gruber PW Camp, it held about 210 PWs. Windsor,Sonoma County, 333 prisoners, agricultural. Hospital PW Camp. It was - Acoustic & Electric-!Best Crossword Puzzle Dictionaries: Online and In Print(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); A machinist from the city of Hamburg, Germany, Kunze was drafted into the German Army in 1940 and sent to the AfrikaKorps in Tunisia, North Africa. to hold American soldiers. They became the first foreign prisoners of war to be executed in the U.S., Krammer said. Most of the land was returned to private ownership or publicuse. OKH.5.9 Summarize and analyze the impact of mobilization for World War II including the establishment of military bases, prisoner of war installations, and the contributions of Oklahomans to the war effort including the American Indian code talkers and the 45th Infantry Division. From 250 to 400 PWs were confined there. A few buildings at Okmulgee Tech were part of the Glennan General It had a capacity of 4, 800, and no reports of escapes or deaths have been located. located, but two German aliens died at the camp and are buried at Ft. Reno. State University in Tahlequah, about the Oklahoma prisoner of war (POW) camps that hosted thousands of German prisoners Johannes Between September 1942 and October 1943 contractors built base camps at Alva, Camp Gruber, Fort Reno, Fort Sill, McAlester, and Tonkawa. They were then sent from New York on trains to various Julia Ervin This during World War II. Please note that these records generally do not contain detailed . , How were the Japanese treated in the internment camps? Originally a branch of the Alva by Woodward News, February26, 2006. This camp, a branch of the Ft. Reno PW Camp, was located at the Borden General Hospital on the west side of Chickasha. It last appeared in the PMG reports on May 1, 1946, the last PW camp According to Jerry Ellis, a selectman in Bourne and a co-director of the Cape Cod Military Museum who has given talks about Cape Cod during the war, many people he comes across have never heard of the POW camp. Reports of During the 1950s and 1960s most of CampGruber's original buildings and facilities were removed or destroyed. at 2009 Williams Avenue in Woodward. Camp Huntsville was the first to be set up in Texas. POW Camp Alva OK. April 01, 2020 WWII Prisoner of War Camp - - Taken from the Okie Legacy It was called Nazilager (Nazi Camp) -- "The First 100 Years of Alva, Oklahoma" states that the Prisoner of War (POW) camp during WWII was best known to POW's in other camps as, 'Devil's Island' or the 'Alcatraz' of prisoner of war systems in the United States. For a while, American authorities attempted to exchange the condemned men with Germany It reverted back into a hospital for American servicemen on July 15, 1945. It had a capacity of 4, 800, and no reports of escapes or deaths have been located. Reports of three escapes and in Oklahoma. At the peak of operation as many as twenty thousand German POWs occupied camps in Oklahoma. At the peak of operation as many as twenty thousand German POWs occupied camps in Oklahoma. A German Prisoner of War, he was beaten to death by his fellow Nazi POWs for treason. There were two escapes, probably the reason for the closing of the camp. This camp, the site of the McAlester Alien Internment Camp, was located in Section 32, north of McAlester and lyingnorth of Electric Street and west of 15th Street. The first PWs arrived on October The POW camps adhered to the Geneva Conventions Missouri Digital Heritage Following are the various camps, dates they were in operation and the maximum number of aliens or prisoners held there. camp was located one-half mile north of Waynoka in the Santa Fe Railroad yards at the ice plant. The number of PWs confinedthere is unknown, but they lived in tents. The Brits pushed the German troops out ofEgypt and in May 1943, the African Corp surrendered. It first appeared in the PMG reports on November 8, 1944, and last appeared on March 8, 1945. LXIV, No. and Tonkawa. Road on the east side of Okmulgee. Each compound was surrounded by one or more fences and overlooked by guards in towers. streets, sidewalks, foundations, gardens, and a vault that was in the headquarters building can still be seen. A branch of the Camp Gruber PWs Camp,it held as many as 401 PWs at one time. Wetumka PW CampThis PW Camp, and between200 and 300 PWs were confined there.
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