Behind Barbed Wire: German Prisoner of War Camps in Minnesota
- ISBN-10
- 0878391134
- ISBN-13
- 9780878391134
- Series
- Behind Barbed Wire
- Category
- Minnesota
- Pages
- 126
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- North Star Pressof st Cloud
- Author
- Anita Buck
Description
More than fifteen POW camps housing German captives existed in Minnesota during World War II. This is the history of those camps, where they were, how they worked, and how the POW's contributed to Minnesota economy, and how and when they ended.
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