August 5, 1945 – “By the end of the Second World War some 400,000 German, Italian and Japanese POWs found themselves imprisoned in the United States. Those German and Italian POWs held in over 500 camps across the U.S. were sent out to harvest and process crops, build roads and waterways, fell trees, roof barns, etc. In the process, they formed significant, often decades long friendships with ‘the enemy’ and underwent considerable changes as individuals and as a group—thus fundamentally influencing post-war German values and institutions, as well as American-German relations. Many even emigrated to the U.S. after the war. From 1943-46 Camp Algona in Iowa and it’s (sic) 34 branch camps in Iowa, Minnesota and both Dakotas housed up to 10,000 German POWs.”
On this this date, the Minnesota branch camps held the following number of POWs:
On this this date, the Minnesota branch camps held the following number of POWs:
1 Moorhead/Minnesota 85 men
2 Fairmont/Minnesota 508 men
4 Bena/Minnesota 145 men
5 Owatonna/Minnesota 207 men
6 Deer River/Minnesota 165 men
7 New Ulm/Minnesota 318 men
8 Montgomery/Minnesota 633 men
9 Faribault/Minnesota 366 men
10 St. Charles/Minnesota 304 men
11 Ortonville/Minnesota 110 men
12 Wells/Minnesota 311 men
http://www.traces.org/germanpows.html
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