What German POWs Lost When the War Ended
WW2 Silent Revealed
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On May 8, 1945, roughly 371,000 German prisoners of war were being held inside the United States, in more than five hundred camps across forty-six states. Most were asleep. Some were already out on work details, cutting timber and picking cotton. The surrender changed nothing that morning — the work quotas still applied, and the Army's own files recorded no serious demonstrations in any camp. What changed came later, and it came from Washington.
SOURCES:
Books
Arnold Krammer — Nazi Prisoners of War in America
Michael R. Waters — Lone Star Stalag: German Prisoners of War at Camp Hearne
Ron Robin — The Barbed-Wire College: Reeducating German POWs in the United States During World War II
Antonio Thompson — Men in German Uniform: POWs in America during World War II
Ruth Beaumont Cook / Judith Gansberg — Stalag: U.S.A.: The Remarkable Story of German POWs in America (Gansberg)
John Hammond Moore — The Faustball Tunnel: German POWs in America and Their Great Escape
Richard Whittingham — Martial Justice: The Last Mass Execution in the United States
Lewis H. Carlson — We Were Each Other's Prisoners
Ron T. Robin, Arndt & Olson — German-American Newspapers and Periodicals
Articles & journals
Christopher McBurney & Russell Wallin — on the Special Projects Division and Der Ruf
Kenneth Jones — Yearbook of German-American Studies
Susan Carruthers — Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 30:3 (2001)
Ulrike Weckel — on Allied atrocity film screenings
Robert Billinger — via H-Net review
John J. Michalczyk — on Signal Corps concentration camp footage
Derek Vaillant — on Der Ruf and camp press
Volker Wehdeking; Ron Wolff — on German POWs in British custody
Archival
U.S. National Archives, Record Group 389 — Office of the Provost Marshal General
U.S. National Archives, Record Group 218 — Joint Chiefs of Staff
U.S. National Archives, Record Group 111 — Signal Corps
U.S. National Archives, Record Group 238 / 60.4500 — Nuremberg Prosecution Exhibit 230, Nazi Concentration Camps
WD AGO Form 19-21, Dos Palos Branch Camp report, February 12, 1946
Edward Davison Papers, YCAL MSS 787, Beinecke Library, Yale University
Kenneth Knox Collection, D-547, Online Archive of California
Judge Advocate General Myron Cramer memorandum, July 3, 1945 — Harry S. Truman Presidential Library
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1947, Vol. III, document 401
U.S. note to the Soviet Foreign Ministry, July 14, 1950
Der Ruf, May 15, 1945; August 1, 1945; April 1, 1946
Press & institutional
The New Yorker, November 10, 1945
Time, July 1945
The Baltimore Sun, October 28, 1992
Los Angeles Times, September 12, 1985; The New York Times, September 11, 1985
Lawrence Journal-World, May 25, 2008
Philadelphia Inquirer, September 4, 2018
Texas Co-op Power
Camp Hearne Historic Site
Camp Algona POW Museum
NCpedia
New Georgia Encyclopedia
Geneva Convention (1929), Article 17
Visuals: archival photographs from the U.S. National Archives and other, animated maps, and original illustrations.
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What German POWs Lost When the War Ended
WW2 Silent Revealed
3,729 views
On May 8, 1945, roughly 371,000 German prisoners of war were being held inside the United States, in more than five hundred camps across forty-six states. Most were asleep. Some were already out on work details, cutting timber and picking cotton. The surrender changed nothing that morning — the work quotas still applied, and the Army's own files recorded no serious demonstrations in any camp. What changed came later, and it came from Washington.
SOURCES:
Books
Arnold Krammer — Nazi Prisoners of War in America
Michael R. Waters — Lone Star Stalag: German Prisoners of War at Camp Hearne
Ron Robin — The Barbed-Wire College: Reeducating German POWs in the United States During World War II
Antonio Thompson — Men in German Uniform: POWs in America during World War II
Ruth Beaumont Cook / Judith Gansberg — Stalag: U.S.A.: The Remarkable Story of German POWs in America (Gansberg)
John Hammond Moore — The Faustball Tunnel: German POWs in America and Their Great Escape
Richard Whittingham — Martial Justice: The Last Mass Execution in the United States
Lewis H. Carlson — We Were Each Other's Prisoners
Ron T. Robin, Arndt & Olson — German-American Newspapers and Periodicals
Articles & journals
Christopher McBurney & Russell Wallin — on the Special Projects Division and Der Ruf
Kenneth Jones — Yearbook of German-American Studies
Susan Carruthers — Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 30:3 (2001)
Ulrike Weckel — on Allied atrocity film screenings
Robert Billinger — via H-Net review
John J. Michalczyk — on Signal Corps concentration camp footage
Derek Vaillant — on Der Ruf and camp press
Volker Wehdeking; Ron Wolff — on German POWs in British custody
Archival
U.S. National Archives, Record Group 389 — Office of the Provost Marshal General
U.S. National Archives, Record Group 218 — Joint Chiefs of Staff
U.S. National Archives, Record Group 111 — Signal Corps
U.S. National Archives, Record Group 238 / 60.4500 — Nuremberg Prosecution Exhibit 230, Nazi Concentration Camps
WD AGO Form 19-21, Dos Palos Branch Camp report, February 12, 1946
Edward Davison Papers, YCAL MSS 787, Beinecke Library, Yale University
Kenneth Knox Collection, D-547, Online Archive of California
Judge Advocate General Myron Cramer memorandum, July 3, 1945 — Harry S. Truman Presidential Library
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1947, Vol. III, document 401
U.S. note to the Soviet Foreign Ministry, July 14, 1950
Der Ruf, May 15, 1945; August 1, 1945; April 1, 1946
Press & institutional
The New Yorker, November 10, 1945
Time, July 1945
The Baltimore Sun, October 28, 1992
Los Angeles Times, September 12, 1985; The New York Times, September 11, 1985
Lawrence Journal-World, May 25, 2008
Philadelphia Inquirer, September 4, 2018
Texas Co-op Power
Camp Hearne Historic Site
Camp Algona POW Museum
NCpedia
New Georgia Encyclopedia
Geneva Convention (1929), Article 17
Visuals: archival photographs from the U.S. National Archives and other, animated maps, and original illustrations.