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The Enemy Within Never Did Without - German and Japanese Prisoners of War At Camp Huntsville, Texas, 1942-1945 (Paperback)
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The Enemy Within Never Did Without - German and Japanese Prisoners of War At Camp Huntsville, Texas, 1942-1945 (Paperback)
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Camp Huntsville was one of the first and largest POW camps
constructed in America during World War II. Located roughly eight
miles east of Huntsville, Texas, in Walker County, the camp was
built in 1942 and opened for prisoners the following year. The camp
served as a model site for POW installations across the country and
set a high standard for the treatment of prisoners. Between 1943
and 1945, the camp housed roughly 4,700 German POWs and experienced
tense relations between incarcerated Nazi and anti-Nazi factions.
Then, during the last months of the war, the American military
selected Camp Huntsville as the home of its top-secret re-education
program for Japanese POWs. The irony of teaching Japanese prisoners
about democracy and voting rights was not lost on African Americans
in East Texas who faced disenfranchisement and racial segregation.
Nevertheless, the camp did inspire some Japanese prisoners to
support democratization of their home country when they returned to
Japan after the war. Meanwhile, in this country, the US government
sold Camp Huntsville to Sam Houston State Teachers College in 1946,
and the site served as the school's Country Campus through the
mid-1950s.
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