The Lone Star and the swastika: prisoners of war in Texas
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Résumé
This analysis of the Texas prisoner-of-war camps describes the logistics of holding thousands of captured German (and some Japanese and Italian) soldiers until World War II's end. The author considers how camps were selected and constructed, how prisoners were treated,… what routine camp life was like, what problems arose with pro-Nazi prisoners, and how civilians reacted to having 50,000 enemy prisoners in their state