Lone Star Stalag : German prisoners of war at Camp Hearne

Author(s)

• Waters, Michael R.
• Long, Mark
• Nellessen, Wili

Bibliographic Information

Lone Star Stalag : German prisoners of war at Camp Hearne

Michael R. Waters, with Mark Long ... [et al.] ; foreword by Wili Nellessen

Texas A&M University Press, c2004

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-260) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Between 1943 and 1945 nearly fifty thousand German prisoners of war, mostly from the German Afrika Korps, lived 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 team 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 even humorous.

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Details

• NCID: BA83848580
• ISBN:
  • 9781585445455
• LCCN: 2003023762
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: College Station
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 268 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : D805.5.C365
  • DC22 : 940.54/72764239
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Camp Hearne -- History
  • LCSH : Camp Hearne -- Management
  • LCSH : World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, American
  • LCSH : Prisoners of war -- Germany
  • LCSH : Prisoners of war -- United States