Lone Star Stalag
Author | : Michael R. Waters |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2006 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781603445535 |
ISBN-10 | : 1603445536 |
Rating | : 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Download or read book Lone Star Stalag written by Michael R. Waters and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Between 1943 and 1945 nearly fifty thousand German Prisoners of war, mostly from the German Afrika Korps, lives and worked at seventy POW camps across Texas. Camp Hearne, located on the outskirts of rural Hearne, Texas, was one of the first and largest German prisoner-of-war camps in the United States. Waters and his research teams tell the story of the five thousand German soldiers held there during World War II. The book reveals the shadow world of Nazism that existed in the camp, adding darkness to a story that is otherwise optimistic and in places humorous.