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Re: Two Questions



There was a very large German-American internment camp in Texas.  PBS or
History Channel (can't remember which I was watching the other night) just
had a special feature on "Nazi's in America" and included the internment
issue.  Most of the internees were immigrants and their immediate families,
only about 10% were American Nazi party members. There was also an
internment camp in Massachusetts.  As a child, I had a German-American
neighbor who had been interned there during the entire war.

Ginny Jones
(Virginia A. Jones, CRM, MIT/LIT)
Records Manager
Newport News Dept. of Public Utilities
Newport News, VA
vjones@nngov.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Schultz [mailto:CSCHULTZ@LIB-GW.TAMU.EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 9:26 AM
> To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject: 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

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