John N. Patterson was commandant of the Point Lookout POW camp for most of its existence. The camp was built to hold 10,000 men but the population often swelled to between 12,000 and 20,000 after the exchange of prisoners was halted. 50,000 men were prisoners there at one time or another, and over 4,000 died.
Heppenheim was not a designed as a POW camp, it was a sub-camp of Dachau Concentration Camp. See the link.
Yes, in Sioux Falls and Yankton. Edit: The Sioux Falls and Yankton camps were branch POW camps of the main POW camp in Algona Iowa. The POW camp in Algona had a total of 34 branch camps in IA, MN, SD and ND. There was also main POW camp in Igloo SD that administered six branch POW camps in western SD, including POW camps at Ft Meade (near Sturgis) and Belle Fourche. POW's did much of the stone work on the grounds of the Ft. Meade VA hospital and they were used for farm labor in the wheat and beet fields in the area.
Prisoner of war, usually said as POW camp.
Please clarify which Camp Douglas you're referring to.. Camp Douglas could refer to a US Army post along the Oregon Train, a Union POW camp during the American Civil War, a US POW camp during World War II, or a mining camp in Norway.
it was a prison of war camp a camp were they took members of army from there rivals and kept them prisoners
POW Camp #1 at Fukuoka, Japan.
Heppenheim was not a designed as a POW camp, it was a sub-camp of Dachau Concentration Camp. See the link.
No, it was a concentration camp/extermination camp but it did have many POWs
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they did a lot of secs
internment area for POW's
POW is the abbreviation of "Prisoners Of War". Its purpose is to hold the former combatants.
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Yes, in Sioux Falls and Yankton. Edit: The Sioux Falls and Yankton camps were branch POW camps of the main POW camp in Algona Iowa. The POW camp in Algona had a total of 34 branch camps in IA, MN, SD and ND. There was also main POW camp in Igloo SD that administered six branch POW camps in western SD, including POW camps at Ft Meade (near Sturgis) and Belle Fourche. POW's did much of the stone work on the grounds of the Ft. Meade VA hospital and they were used for farm labor in the wheat and beet fields in the area.
My father was captured in 1943 by the Germans and shipped to northern Greece to a POW camp. He was captured near the town of Nevesinje. The POW camp was near Salonkia, Greece.