Captured: Axis Prisoners of War in Pennsylvania
Posted by Richard Holl on Feb 24, 2025 in | Comments Off on Captured: Axis Prisoners of War in Pennsylvania During World War II, the United States government built the largest, most complex prisoner of war program in American history. By 1944 more than 425,000 Axis prisoners of war (POWs) lived in hundreds of camps across the U.S. The Office of the Provost Marshal General (OPMG), the War Department agency in charge of the prisoner of war program, authorized the use of German, Italian and Japanese POWs...read more