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13 sty 2017 · At the end of World War II, the U.S. opened camps of its own, where perhaps a million German prisoners died in secret. Wikimedia Commons A U.S. soldier at Camp Remagen, one of the Rheinwiesenlager camps, guarding thousands of German soldiers captured in the Ruhr area in April 1945.
Members of the German military were interned as prisoners of war in the United States during World War I and World War II. In all, 425,000 German prisoners lived in 700 camps throughout the United States during World War II.
The Rheinwiesenlager (German: [ˈʁaɪnˌviːzn̩ˌlaːɡɐ], Rhine meadow camps) were a group of 19 concentration camps built in the Allied-occupied part of Germany by the U.S. Army to hold captured German soldiers at the close of the Second World War.
German and Italian POW camp during 1942–1945 housing mostly Afrika Korps officers and Italians enlisted from the Torch Campaign. Camp Ritchie also served as a U.S. Army Training Camp from WWII until it was closed under BRAC during the 1990s to the early 2000s.
15 wrz 2009 · The hearty young men who helped his father pick corn or put up hay or build livestock fences were German prisoners of war from a nearby camp. “They were the enemy, of course,” says Luetchens...
8 wrz 2021 · On September 1, 1945, the body of American camp guard PFC Joseph F. Ward was found at about 10:20 AM in one of the camp’s guard towers. The Adams County coroner reported that he had been dead for only 5 minutes when he had been found with a .30 caliber carbine wound to the head.
On January 31, 1945, American prisoners of war from Stalag III-C were caught, tragically, in a firefight between German guards and Soviet troops.
