German Prisoners of War Try to Escape

In a rare escape attempt by German POW’s, eight fled a work detail near Temple on June 6, 1943 but none made it out of Bell County.

By June 1944, Texas had 33 prisoner-of-war camps with an estimated 75,000 “guests,”  most of them German with a token number of Italians and Japanese. Climate, space and a willingness to warehouse enemy combatants contributed to Texas winding up with more camps and more detainees than any other state.

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