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Re: Two Questions



There is a new book by Betty Cowley, Stalag Wisconsin: Inside WWI Prisoner
of War Camps (Oregon, WI: Badger Books, 2002) if anyone is interested.
She was interviewed on All Things Considered about amonth ago.
Sally

--- Ed Frank <efrank@MEMPHIS.EDU> wrote:
> "Richard G. King Jr." wrote:
>
> > Charles et al,
> > German POW camps also in Arizona.  In one escape attempt POWs used
> gasoline
> > company road map to plan escape.  Road map showed the blue trace of
> the Gila
> > River running near the camp and to the Colorado River which flows into
> > northern end of the Gulf of California near north end of the Mexican
> state
> > of Sonora.  The POWs built a boat for the trip, managed their escape,
> fled
> > with the boat to the river and... Unfortunately for them the Gila
> River only
> > has water during floods, otherwise its quite dry.  They then tried to
> walk
> > from Phoenix to Mexico through the desert.  This proved to be far
> worse than
> > being in the camp; they all pleaded to be returned.  Dick King,
> University
> > of Arizona
> >
> > Charles Schultz wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
>
> Some 300k German POWs (usually taken in North Africa or Italy) were
> imprisoned in camps in about a dozen southern and southwestern states.
> In and around Memphis, there were several thousand, who were utilized
> as agricultural and forestry laborers and warehousemen at, inter alia,
> the
> US Army Depot here.  A (possibly apocryphal) story in my family is that
> one
> escaped and wandered around downtown Memphis for most of an
> afternoon, never attracting attention since there were so many US and
> foreign servicemen about in unfamiliar uniforms.  He too turned himself
> in.  (A different man was so fond of the place that he returned several
> times in the 1970s and 80s, receiving official recognition and the keys
> to the city.)
>
> The author to look for on German POWs in this country is Arnold
> Krammer.
>
> Ed Frank
>
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