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Italian prisoners of war working on the Arizona Canal (December 1943) In the United States at the end of World War II, there were prisoner-of-war camps, including 175 Branch Camps serving 511 Area Camps containing over 425,000 prisoners of war (mostly German). The camps were located all over the US, but were mostly in the South, due to the higher expense of heating the barracks in colder areas ...
US Prisoner of War populations [1]; Month Total POWs German Italian Japanese May 1942: 32: 31-1 June 1942: 33: 32-1 July 1942: 49: 39-10 August 1942: 65: 55-10 September 1942
After World War II, internment camps were used by the Allied occupying forces to hold suspected Nazis, usually using the facilities of previous Nazi camps. They were all closed down by 1949. In East Germany the communist government used prison camps to hold political prisoners, opponents of the communist regime or suspected Nazi collaborators.
Axis prisoner-of-war camps during World War II. List of prisoner-of-war camps in Germany; List of Japanese-run internment camps during World War II;
After the beginning of World War II, people from German-occupied Europe were imprisoned in the concentration camps. About 1.65 million people were registered prisoners in the camps, of whom about a million died during their imprisonment.
Heidi Gurcke Donald, We Were Not the Enemy: Remembering the United States Latin-American Civilian Internment Program of World War II (iUniverse, 2007), ISBN 0-595-39333-0; Stephen Fox, Fear Itself: Inside the FBI Roundup of German Americans during World War II: The Past as Prologue (iUniverse, 2005), ISBN 978-0-595-35168-8
World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the United States (67 P) Pages in category "World War II prisoner-of-war camps" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the United States (67 P) Pages in category "Prisoner-of-war camps in the United States" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.