Little remains of the once sprawling POW camp located approximately 90 miles south of St. Louis, with the exception of a stone fireplace that was part of the Officer's Club. Access Conditions . Weingarten is a small town in southern Missouri, outside of St. Genevieve. The 1929 Geneva Convention, recognizing that it is the duty of prisoners to attempt escape, contains numerous regulations limiting the severity of punishments for escapees. With that entry, few realize that the nation would open its borders to house prisoners of war from the Axis powers for the remainder of the war. The Bushwhacker military exhibit honors those Vernon County citizens who have served in armed conflicts, and especially those who have given their lives in service to their country. The location of the former POW camp is a residential area now. A few continued into the early 1970s in Las Animas County where Trinidad is located. Today, it functions as a National Guard Training Center. Earlier that evening, a English-speaking fellow prisoner heard an American radio broadcast suggesting that German POWs be dispatched to the uncertain care of the Soviet army. About 2,600 German POWs were held there during World War II.. You can also listen to this Radiolab piece called Nazi Summer Camp, about prisoners of war in Idaho, or read this Smithsonian article about the nationwide POW movement. Photo by Buel White of the Post-Dispatch, One of two boats, known as "boat camps," moored in the St. Louis area to house prisoners of war who worked on levees and other river projects. In Southern POW camps, some facilities were segregated by race, and Black servicemen were given the worst jobs. The positive treatment they experienced here, another way we promoted that was a way to say these are people who will go back and reestablish society in Europe and have an opinion on the United States and we want that to be good, Fiedler said. Genevieve County. American commanders said it couldn't happen. Indeed, in correspondence, one POW described his camp as a "goldener Kafig," or golden cage, while another wrote home to say imprisonment was like a "rest-cure. President Harry Truman ordered them sent back to Europe "to whichever country wanted them. Incidents like Black soldiers being forced to dispose of the POWs' human waste and POWs refusing to follow instructions from Black work supervisors infuriated Black servicemen. Despite the challenges of overseeing the internment of former enemy soldiers, the camp experienced few security incidents and conditions remained rather cordial, in part due to the sustenance given the prisoners. Sixteen of the men were killed or died as a result of an accident on 31 October 1945. The far-reaching 1929 Convention covered such things as camp location, punishments for escapes, and restrictions regarding POW labor. The Missouri National Guard retained 4,358 acres of Camp Crowder for use as a training site. Many of the camps where they were held have faded into distant memory as little evidence remains of their existence; however, one local resident has a relic from a former POW camp that provides an enduring connection to the service of a departed relative. Fort Leonard Wood, in central Missouri Camp Weingarten, near Ste. Camp Weingarten, Missouri. The elder Hennes was captured by Americans in Europe in the fall of 1944. Now called Dennis Whiles, Gaertner told Jean he had been raised in an orphanage, thus eliminating any questions about his family. Four years later, the government offered the buildings at auction to relieve the post-war shortage of housing. Post-Dispatch file photo, Three Italian POWs paint and draw during free time at Camp Weingarten in June 1943. Located where the present day Cleburne Conference center is located in the 1500 block of West Henderson(business HWY 67), Housed German POWs from the Afrika Korps after their defeat in North Africa. A fairly, easy cooperative relationship grew up over time to the point friendships existed, to be sure.. Carl Reiner was stationed at Camp Crowder in the 1940s and when he created the 1960s-era The Dick Van Dyke Show, he made the post the setting where Rob and Laura Petrie, portrayed by actors Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore, met; Rob was a sergeant in Special Services and Laura was a USO dancer. Often, descendants of those POWs come for a visit to see where their relatives spent the war. In the early 1950s, local congressman Dewey Jackson Short, (R-7th District of Missouri) senior member of the House Armed Services Committee secured authorization and initial funding to build two permanent barracks and a disciplinary barracks and reactivate the post as a permanent installation, Fort Crowder. Most Americans regarded them as curiosities, but there was conflict. Branch camps in Missouri were: Eventually, in the wake of the Nazis' six-month reign of terror, the War Department acknowledged the problem and began to enact reforms. A few concrete ammunition bunkers are the last remnants of the POW camp. However, from 1863 this broke down following the Confederacy's refusal to treat black and white Union prisoners equally . In Oakland, he landed a steady salesman job, and in 1964, he met his wife Jean. Waste material generated from the former Fort include aviation and vehicular fuels, oils, greases, metals, paints and solvents. Missouri figured into this equation, housing some 15,000 prisoners of war from Germany and Italy inside state lines. Residents were, Elliott See and Charles Bassett were the lead crew for Gemini IX, a mission scheduled for May 1966, all part of the learning curve in the race, On February 25, 1966, CBS premiered a TV documentary, "Sixteen in Webster Groves." The most elaborate escape attempt occurred in 1944, at one of the more spartan camps in Texas. After completing his initial training, he was designated as infantry and became a clerk with the 201st Infantry Regiment. (POW) camp in 1943. Located between Olympia and Tacoma, Washington. <> Photo by Jack Gould of the Post-Dispatch, A German POW on a boat camp in St. Louis relaxes and reads on his bunk. You may come to the Missouri Valley Room to view it or request a photocopy from the Library's Document Delivery service. Housed German POWs from the Afrika Corps after defeat in North Africa. In what must have been one of the bizarre coincidences of World War II, Hennes was a prisoner at the same camp as his father, Friedrich Hennes. Copyright 2023, News Tribune Publishing. Transcripts for St. Louis Public Radio produced programming are available upon request for individuals with hearing impairments. Taylor and his fellow soldiers, most of whom were assigned to military police companies, maintained a busy schedule of guarding the prisoners held in the camp, but also received opportunities to take leave from their duties and visit their loved ones back home. In addition, Article 43 of the Convention required the appointment of POW administrators, and often, Nazi officers would assume this role, becoming in effect, camp commandants. <> The remainder of the land was given to various public and private entities which uses now include a municipal airport, industrial parks, industrial waste treatment facility operations, regional landfill, underground fuel storage, burn pits and lagoons. Housed diverse groups of POWs ranging from Afrika Corp troops, Italian, Yugoslavian, Chechen, Russian conscripts and others. Copyright 2017 Vernon County Historical Society - All Rights Reserved. Some fought floods with sandbags. 600 German POWs were interned in the Schwartz Ballroom from October 1944 to January 1946. Photo by Buel White of the Post-Dispatch. All enlisted men were required to work, and they were paid 80 cents a day, the same rate American privates received. 1 0 obj As described in The Washington Post, the War Department, believing that a happy POW was a pliant POW, went above and beyond when it came to POW food, education, and entertainment. endobj Formerly located on the south-east corner of East 120th St. and South Walnut Ave. 2.5 miles east of Grant. Send questions and comments about this story to feedback@stlpublicradio.org. Jeremy P. Amick endobj %PDF-1.7 Labor unions, however, regarded them as competition for returning U.S. forces and demanded their expulsion. Southeast Missouri State University Cape Girardeau, MO 63701 Phone: (573) 651-2245; Fax: (573) 651-2666; Email: semoarchives@semo.edu Guide to the Weingarten P.O.W Camp Collection . Also offered was circus and acrobatic instruction, including trampoline jumping, taught by professional circus performers. 10 0 obj The POW camps adhered to the Geneva Conventions Missouri Digital Heritage While the core of the post was retained, many of the wood temporary barracks were declared surplus and sold. Genevieve and Farmington, Missouri, (Camp Weingarten) had no pre-war existence," Fiedler wrote. Photo by Jack Gould of the Post-Dispatch, Two Italian POWs hang out their laundry at Camp Weingarten in June 1943. Approximately 1,000 Japanese Americans were kept there, under tight security, behind multiple layers of barbed wire fence. There were four main base camps, each holding between 2,000 and 5,000 prisoners of war. Too old to participate in the company sports . <> By the war's end, the average reached 60,000 POWs per month. As a result, their supervision relaxed, sometimes to the point of being unguarded and unwatched. The Chicago Tribune reported on October 23, 1943, that the prisoners at Camp Weingarten soon put on weight by eating a daily menu superior to that of the average civilian.. Missouri had four POW camps,. McDowell notes the cigarette case is not only a beautiful piece that serves as a link to the past, but represents a story to be shared of the states rich military legacy. Following World War II, the facilities were taken over by the Veterans Administration with both a hospital and large domiciliary complement. The camp was made up of 450 prisoners from Germany and Aus. It held soldiers and officers of the Italian army captured in the Allied Mediterranean campaigns during World War II. The complex, serviced by a spur of the Kansas City Southern Railroad, included a main manufacturing facility, an engine testing area (ETA) for the live fire testing of rocket engines, a component testing area (CTA), and a former Camp Crowder warehouse, Building 900, as a warehouse and later engine overhaul and manufacturing. In the years after the war, McDowell said, her mother kept the cigarette case tucked away in a chest of drawers but since both of her parents have passed, she now believes the historical item should be on display in a museum. There's a small museum north of Concordia near the guard tower. By 1943 the army had acquired 42,786.41 acres (173.2km2), 66.9 sq. From San Pedro, Gaertner, who spoke fluent English, traveled north undetected, taking a series of odd jobs on the West Coast, including fruit picker, logger, and ski instructor. By 1943, Arkansas had received the first of 23,000 German and Italian prisoners of war, who would live and work at military installations and branch camps throughout the state. As of July 1, 1944, there were 353 camps in 39 states with 18 more camps under construction. Kelly Moffitt joined St. Louis Public Radio in 2015 as an online producer for St. Louis Public Radio's talk shows St. Louis on the Air. During the 1970sthe Rev. Large German pow camp 2 miles outside of Thomasville. From 1942 to 1945, more than 400,000 Axis prisoners were shipped to the United States and detained in camps across the nation. All Rights Reserved. {{start_at_rate}} {{format_dollars}} {{start_price}} {{format_cents}} {{term}}, {{promotional_format_dollars}}{{promotional_price}}{{promotional_format_cents}} {{term}}, 4 killed, 4 critically injured in crash at South Grand Boulevard and Forest Park Avenue, Parents push back on allegations against St. Louis transgender center. Camp Weingarten quickly grew into a sprawling facility to house Italian POWs brought to the United States and, explained Jefferson City resident Carolyn McDowell, was the site where one of her uncles spent his entire period of service with the U.S. Army in World War II. In the years after the war, McDowell said, her mother kept the cigarette case tucked away in a chest of drawers but since both of her parents have passed, she now believes the historical item should be on display in a museum. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. With Glidden is Lt. Lawrence Ponetretti, an Army interpreter. The United States had officially entered World War II. All buildings have since been demolished, the only structure left standing is the base of one stone pillar where the main gate of the camp stood. People got in trouble for it: prisoners expressing affection through love notes were intercepted. Army Col. H.H. The main camps supported a number of branch camps, which were used to put POWs where their labor could be best utilized. The most famous of those buried on the installation is German submariner. Sited on the abandoned Civilian Conservation Corps camp about 1.6 miles east of the Stark Covered Bridge in Stark, Coos County. 500 German POWs were housed in a warehouse and tent city next to the Rockfield Canning Co. plant, where many of them worked as pea packers. <>/Metadata 855 0 R/ViewerPreferences 856 0 R>> endstream 9 0 obj % According to theSociety for Military History, the last batch of them 1,500 German prisoners sailed from New Jersey on July 26, 1946. Click here to learn more or join our conversation. Similar scenes played out across rural America, but over time, as noted in The Washington Post, many of these small communities adjusted to the POW presence. endobj They worked at 8 local canneries until moving to other parts of Wisconsin in August, 1945. List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the United States. Genevieve Camp Crowder, outside of Neosho, Missouri Camp Clark, outside of Nevada, Missouri Click here for a state map showing camp locations Sub camps:Camp Pine, Camp Thornton and Camp Skokie Valley, each with 200 POWs. Over 3000 German POWs were interned at Billy Mitchell Field airport (known today as Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport (MKE)) from January 1945 to April 1946. The case not only had a specially crafted latching mechanism, but was also etched with an emblem of an eagle on the cover with barracks buildings and a guard tower from the camp inscribed upon the inside. As noted by the Library of Congress, among the many protections and guarantees provided to POWs were adequate food, housing, and medical care, "protection from violence, intimidation, insults, and public curiosity," prohibition against medical experimentation, and reciprocal military rights and status. Some escaped out of homesickness, some out of patriotism, some out of fear of being returned to their altered homeland. As author David Fiedler explains in his book "The Enemy Among Us: POWs in Missouri During World War II," the state was once home to more than 15,000 German and Italian prisoners of war. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fort_Crowder&oldid=1094391312, Col John Bartlett Murphy, May 46 Mar 48, This page was last edited on 22 June 2022, at 09:53. Here are some rare photos that show what living in the state of Missouri during this time looked like. He then took it back to camp with him and thats when he gave it to one of the Italian POWs.. ", The Untold Truth Of America's WWII German POW Camps, History of Prisoner of War Utilization by the United States Army 1776 to 1945, American Reeducation of German POWs, 1943-1946, Icons of Insult: German and Italian Prisoners of War in African American Letters During World War II, Returning to America: German Prisoners of War and American Experience. Prisoners worked on local farms. They decorated their barracks with their work. Camp Clark was established in 1908 and was used as an assembly point for troops serving in Central America, in the Mexican border war, and in World War I. The farmer did not want to respond by letter but his daughter did, which would eventually result in a marriage. All buildings but one have been demolished. There were some instances where individuals took out personal attacks against the Germans and Italians, but on the whole, Americans accepted that the government was housing prisoners of war in their own backyards. There were comparatively few Japanese prisoners of war brought to the United States during those years and none were held in Missouri. About 2,600 German POWs were held there during World War II. Photo by Jack Gould of the Post-Dispatch, The front gate of the POW camp at Hellwig Brothers Farm on Gumbo Flats, part of the Missouri River bottomland in St. Louis County. As author David Fiedler explains in his book "The Enemy Among Us: POWs in Missouri During World. Following World War II, the facilities became the. "His hometown really wasn't all that far from Camp Weingarten.". Camps typically held between 50 and 250 POWs and the men were housed in any sort of structure that was available. Despite their careful planning, 10 were captured within days, far from the border. Having experienced the "American way of life," some POWs sought U.S. sponsors or worked for U.S. occupational forces in Germany in order to return to the U.S. POW John Schroer recalls that he made his decision to immigrate upon seeing the Statue of Library as he departed New York. The author further explained, (T)he camp was enlarged to the point that some 5,800 POWs could be held there, and approximately 380 buildings of all types would be constructed on an expanded 950-acre site.. Although America's treatment of POWs earned high marks from most German prisoners, its repatriation policy was widely criticized. 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POWs built secret tunnels, slipped away from inattentive guards, constructed dummies of themselves, and impersonated U.S. officers, among other tricks. Italians went to Camp Weingarten, at the German-heritage village of 99 residents. Although the Georgia camp killers were convicted in 1945, Nazi perpetrators, protected by the Convention, usually received minimal or no punishment. After Germany's surrender in May 1945, the process of POW release and repatriation began. According to Society for Military History, to create rights and status equal to the U.S. military, German officers above the rank of captain were assigned their own POW orderlies and generals were housed in private huts. People didnt get in the car and drive 75 miles: it was a locally-focused world. American commanders dismissed his report as hysterical. Camp Weingarten quickly grew into a sprawling facility to house Italian POWs brought to the United States and, Jefferson City resident Carolyn McDowell explained, was the site where one of her uncles spent his entire period of service with the U.S. Army in World War II. Over time, the POWs not only proved themselves capable workers troublemaking Nazis aside they also earned the trust and admiration of many of their private employers. To disguise its purpose, The Factory POW staff interspersed pro-democracy tracts with fiction and other entertaining fare. Thats why I want to tell the story of its creation its history, so that its association to Camp Weingarten is never forgotten., Jeremy Amick is one of the authors writing for WAR HISTORY ONLINE. UT POW CD. Prisoners wore rejected GI garb marked with PW.. ", As noted in Returning to America: German Prisoners of War and American Experience, of the more than half million Germans who immigrated to America between 1947 and 1960, several thousand were former POWs. "I will someday donate the cigarette case to a museum for preservation and display, and I believe my brother, Harold McDowell, would agree. endobj With a weekly newsletter looking back at local history. About 100 POWs lived there and worked on area farms, replacing Americans who had gone to war. The following October, the former POW camp was closed and many of the buildings were dismantled, shipped and reassembled as housing for student veterans at colleges and universities throughout the United States. As the NKPA retreated farther north, they were forced to evacuate their prisoners with them. Subscribe with this special offer to keep reading, (renews at {{format_dollars}}{{start_price}}{{format_cents}}/month + tax). As noted by Time, until 1948, the U.S. military was, like much of America, a segregated institution. Pfc. Wxi7Enw{)}$yIOJ }E>kZkz6v;_c-dPc=lJeVP 2d}$uDOZeWEB{WHV>'HXDkX9F$j#h"6&U&Y{@G;hdGtDIWbRTo(BaA`cEln!PjYYN0S UJW)G)E*}!2HfK?8`P The majority of the camps were located in the Midwest, South, and Southwest, and the biggest contingency of POWs 372,000 were German. St. Louis on the Airbrings you the stories of St. Louis and the people who live, work and create in our region. Thirty-three German POWs and two Italian POWs are now buried in the post cemetery. The POW was then moved to a camp in the United Kingdom before being placed on a troopship bound for Canada in October the same year. Many locals recognized the vital role the POWs played in their local businesses, and quite a few befriended their captive employees, continuing relationships even after the war, as noted in HistoryNet. Click here for a state map showing branch camp locations. They were contracted to work on farms and in canneries, mills, and tanneries. Two were caught by an El Paso railroad detective just before reaching the border. In the United States, at the end of World War II there were 175 Branch Camps serving 511 Area Camps containing over 425,000 prisoners of war (mostly German). endobj The men ate well and were quartered under the same conditions as the Americans assigned to guard them, and the prisoners often enjoyed a great deal of freedom. In Kansas, for example, some farmers invited their POW workers for meals and allowed them to go hunting or pony riding unattended. Unfortunately, while the U.S. generally honored the Convention, neither Japan, which never signed the agreement, nor Germany, which chose to ignore it, did. The military exhibit wouldnt be complete without a salute to Nevadas Camp Clark. They ruled with an iron fist, ordering work stoppages and holding kangaroo courts. The camp was named for General Harvey C Clark, Missouri's adjutant general and commander of Missouri's National Guard. Interestingly enough, no marriages were a direct result of the prisoners time in Missouri. Many of the camps where they were held have faded into distant memory as little evidence remains of their existence; however, one local resident has a relic from a former POW camp that provides an enduring connection to the service of a departed relative. The author further explained, "(T)he camp was enlarged to the point that some 5,800 POWs could be held there, and approximately 380 buildings of all types would be constructed on an expanded 950-acre site.". Salvatore E. Polizzi had become a national figure for his work in The Hill neighborhood of St. Louis. [7]:272. In New England, they harvested peas, cabbage, and apples. 200 German POWs were interned at the Tri-City Airport (now known as South Wood County Airport) from July to November 1945. Recaptured: Roanoke, Va. Largest all-new prisoner of war compound ever constructed on American soil. This page was last edited on 25 December 2022, at 21:03. It is a beautifully crafted cigarette case, but the irony of it all is that my father never smoked, she jokingly added. Boatmen's Bank building, Saint Louis, 1941 Photogrammar/ Edward Gruber On, December 23rd, 1941, the bits and pieces of needed war goods exhibit opened in the Boatmen's Bank building. <>/ExtGState<>/XObject<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/Annots[ 9 0 R] /MediaBox[ 0 0 612 792] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> "It is a beautifully crafted cigarette case, but the irony of it all is that my father never smoked," she jokingly added. From 1942 through 1945, more than 400,000 Axis prisoners were shipped to the United States and detained in camps in rural areas across the country. As McDowell went on to explain, her uncle remained at Camp Weingarten until his discharge from the U.S. Army in December 1944. Straussberg added an apology to his keepers for causing the trouble of looking for us.. Photo by Buel White of the Post-Dispatch, The chow line on a boat camp at St. Louis in 1945. Located between Farmington and Ste. Aware that POWs were actually eating better than many civilians, the War Department, sensitive to public perception, cut back severely on the POWs' rations. My mothers brother, Dwight Hafford Taylor, was raised in the community of Alton in southern Missouri, said McDowell. Sign up for our newsletter to keep reading. During July and August 1943, Camp Weingarten, Mis-souri, sent approximately 300 Italian POWs to Shenandoah.11 Those POWs handled most of DeKalb's . According to American Reeducation of German POWs, 1943-1946, in 1944, as Allied victory appeared imminent, U.S. officials began to plan for a post-war Germany. The camp had no pre-war existence, and unlike the other major camps in the state, it never served any military function other than a pen for Italian POW's. The first POW's, all Italian, arrived on May 7, 1943. <> In his written account (via The Fallen Foe), POW Fritz Ensslin, for example, claimed that many transferred POWs died in France performing "forced labor. Kurt Rossmeisl escaped on 4 August 1945 and surrendered in 1959. Most of these POWs were transferred from Camp Roswell, which was a base or main POW camp for New Mexico. In 1893, inventor Nikola Tesla first publicly demonstrated radio during a meeting of the National Electric Light Association in St. Louis by t. <> There were originally four main camps in Missouri at Camp Clark, Camp Crowder, Camp Weingarten and Fort Leonard Wood. Working POWs earned 80 cents per day, and sometimes could buy beer at prison canteens. However, not all towns and townspeople were happy hosts. $.' The 3,600 prisoners planted tomatoes and took over cooking, attracting American guards with their spicy enhancements to GI fare. These branch camps held 50 to 250 prisoners and were placed in communities in which the prisoners could be of use to community businesses such as bakeries, farms, maintenance jobs, dock workers for the railroad and riverboats, and factories. Facilities now serve as an adjunct to the state's mental health program. Post-Dispatch file photo, Some of the German POWs who were housed in a prison compound at Fort Leonard Wood in central Missouri watch an Army Signal Corps film of scenes from a Nazi concentration camp in Europe. POW Camp, Co.1, Tooele (original postage). Eventually, every state (with the exceptions of Nevada, North Dakota, and Vermont) had at least one POW camp. Although the POW camps opened and closed with little fanfare, their unique design and deployment in painful contrast to the Japanese internment camps have earned them their own notable place in the war's history. Each man had food and a change of clothing. [1] Approximately 90% of Italian POWs pledged to help the United States, by volunteering in Italian Service Units (ISU). POW Camps in the USA POW Camps in Missouri. As chronicled by AP, on a September night in 1945, POW Georg Gaertner escaped from New Mexico's Camp Deming by slipping under a fence and hopping a train bound for San Pedro. A few Italian prisoners even worked in the St. Louis Ordnance Depot on North Broadway, handling nonexplosive freight after their country switched sides in the war. The road is in an area called the POW Camp Recreation Area in the De Soto National Forest. About 100 POWs lived there and worked on area farms, replacing Americans who had gone to war. I dont want to imply that people just accepted what the government did, but the ordinary citizen did realize this was a unique time, Fiedler said. There were also few wholesale escape attempts made by prisoners of war in Missouri. Almost all of the WWII Camp structures have since been demolished. In March 1945, national radio commentator Walter Winchell claimed that Germans on Hellwig farm could sneak across the Missouri River into the explosives plant at Weldon Spring and blow the place up. Glidden (left), commander of Camp Weingarten, looks across part of the 960-acre prisoner-of-war compound in Ste. Genevieve. Camp Albuquerque was an American World War II POW camp in Albuquerque, New Mexico that housed Italian and German prisoners of war. endobj Later known as an anti-Nazi camp where many intellectuals, artist, writers were among the POWs. stream Opened in 1943, a segregation camp from 1944. For his "crimes," they strangled him to death. During World War II, more than fifteen thousand German and Italian soldiers came to Missouri. 6U z*&`873 hkg7*I|dx^EY?IF$zwUJH!/V>H>is&n /t; Photo by Buel White of the Post-Dispatch. Black soldiers experienced institutionalized discrimination both at home and overseas, and their prejudicial treatment occurred at the hands of not only white Americans but white POWs as well.
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