Huscarle | 15 Mar 2015 6:25 a.m. PST |
Very interesting read on the BBC link |
John Treadaway | 15 Mar 2015 7:22 a.m. PST |
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20thmaine | 15 Mar 2015 7:45 a.m. PST |
Just saw that – must get to Eden camp sometime. |
Vintage Wargaming | 15 Mar 2015 7:59 a.m. PST |
If you do go to Eden Camp make sure you go to the puppet show in the camp theatre when you are there |
FABET01 | 15 Mar 2015 12:03 p.m. PST |
There was a small POW Camp for Germans at Fort (then Camp) Drum in northern New York State in the U.S. When the 10th Mountain was reactivated there in the early 80's they used the some of the building as the child day care center until new facilities could be had. |
Chris Wimbrow | 15 Mar 2015 1:03 p.m. PST |
As the article states, not a great number of POWs and the original structures are long gone, but Tullahoma still has traces. link From the ACW campaign to the space age, a town with a name like no other has ebbed and flowed. |
John Secker | 15 Mar 2015 3:05 p.m. PST |
My son went to Eden camp a good few years ago, on a school trip. He said it was great, though an exhibit with a drowned submariner gave him nightmares afterwards. |
Sundance | 15 Mar 2015 4:17 p.m. PST |
There were still remains of the POW camp at Fort McCoy, WI, when I was in the Guard in the '80s. |
ColCampbell | 15 Mar 2015 5:26 p.m. PST |
Camp Clinton, south of Clinton, Mississippi, just has a few slabs from the more substantial buildings left. Almost all of the buildings, especially the prisoner quarters, were sold off after the prisoners were repatriated to Germany. But the Mississippi River basin model that the prisoners constructed is still there, albeit all overgrown and partially silted in. link [Not everything in this posting is believed to be accurate. The book author quoted at the end, Michael Allard, is a co-worker on mine and probably the expert on the camp.] link Jim |
DontFearDareaper | 16 Mar 2015 4:13 p.m. PST |
There were a number of camps in Texas although, like most of the other camps mentioned, not much remains of them nowadays. In high school, one of my classmate's father had been a POW in Huntsville, Tx (Luftwaffe pilot shot down in North Africa). He was really interesting to talk to and I remember he would talk about being in the Hitler Youth in the 30's. Some of it he thought was really cool but he wasn't keen on some of the propaganda because he was a devout catholic. His religious beliefs kept him from joining the SS at the outbreak of the war and he ended up in the Luftwaffe which led him to a POW camp in Texas for almost 3 years. |
zoneofcontrol | 16 Mar 2015 7:58 p.m. PST |
We have a neat little mixed bag of history in South Central PA. There is a site named Camp Micheaux that was a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp. During WWII it became a POW Interrogation Camp for German and later, Japanese prisoners. After the war it was leased out as a church group camp. By the 1970s it was pretty worn out and little remains beyond building foundations. There is a walking tour through the site that points out the locations and remains of various structures and their purposes during the multiple uses of the property. The really cool thing is that it is just down the road from Pine Grove Furnace State Park which was the location of an early iron works and is now home the the Appalachian Trail museum. |