Record #:

10519

Author(s):

Billinger, Robert D.

Abstract:

During World War II thousands of prisoners of war spent time in North Carolina prison camps. Billinger discusses where they came from, what they did as POWs, and how the incarceration changed some of them. The article includes a map identifying the eighteen camps where German POWs were held.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 47 Issue 2, Spring 2008, p26-28, il

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--World War, 1939-1945--Indians of North America; North Carolina--History--World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners of war--North Carolina