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Re: Two Questions



I am not aware of any Germans being placed in Camps in Texas as the
Japanese were in some other western states.  There were, however, a
number of German POW camps in Texas and undoubtedly other states.  In
some locations the German prisoners were "employed" in harvesting a
variety of crops on farms near the prisons.  There have at least a
couple of articles in Texas historical journals written about German
prisoners and prisoner of war camps in Texas.  Dr. Arnold Kramer has
written a book titled Hitler's Last Soldier about one of the prisoners
who escaped from one of the camps.  Escape was apparently quite rare as
conditions in the prison camps were much better than they were outside,
especially in Germany.



Dr. Charles R. Schultz, CA, SAA Fellow
Clements Professor and Clements Archivist
Cushing Library
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX  77843-5000
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