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To: KLP who wrote (172063)	7/2/2006 4:00:47 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) of 793782

<<Captured Germans were sent to American prisoner of war camps at the rate of 30,000 POWs per month from D-Day until Christmas 1944. Thirty-three detention facilities were in Texas alone.>> During WWII the government bought the little village (21 buildings the last time I was there) of Bernadotte on the Spoon River in the middle of Illinois. Made it a POW camp. During the day the POWs were let out to work as hands on local farms as there was a manpower shortage due to the war. They were paid by the farmers at going rates. After the war the town was given back to the original inhabitants and the barracks were left for wood to build new homes. Many of the POWs stayed, they had jobs and nothing to go back to and became citizens.

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