Camp Beaver Dam

Camp Beaver Dam
Beaver Dam, Wisconsin in United States
Site information
Type	Prisoner of war camp
Location
Site history
In use	June 17, 1944 (1944-06-17) – August 1944 (1944-08)
Garrison information
Past commanders	Lt. John B. Price Lt. Lawrence J. Distel
Occupants	300 German prisoners of war

Camp Beaver Dam was an American World War II prisoner of war camp in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin during the summer of 1944. The camp held 300 German prisoners of war in a tent city encampment where the Wayland Academy field house now stands. ^[1]

See also

• List of POW camps in the United States

References

1. Cowley, Betty (February 2002). "Camp Beaver Dam". Stalag Wisconsin: inside WW II prisoner-of-war camps . Badger Books, LLC. p. 77. ISBN   1-878569-83-X. Archived from the original on 2024-05-18. Retrieved 2021-11-01. In trucks under heavy military escort, 300 German PW's arrived on the 17th of June.

Further reading

• Cowley, Betty. Stalag Wisconsin: Inside WW II Prisoner of War Camps. 2002. ISBN   978-1-878569-83-7
• Billinger, Robert D. Hitler's Soldiers in the Sunshine State: German Pows in Florida. 2000.
• Fiedler, David Winston. The Enemy Among Us: POWs in Missouri During World War II. 2003
• Gaertner, Georg. Hitler's Last Soldier in America. 1985.
• Kiefer, Louis E. Italian Prisoners of War in America, 1942–1946: Captives or Allies? 1992.
• Koop, Allen V. Stark Decency: German Prisoners of War in a New England Village. 1988.
• Krammer, Arnold. Nazi Prisoners of War in America. 1996.
• Lewis, George C. and John Mewha. History of Prisoner of War Utilization by the United States Army, 1776–1945. 1955.
• Moore, John Hammond. The Faustball Tunnel: German POWs in America and Their Great Escape. 1978.
• Waters, Michael R. Lone Star Stalag: German Prisoners of War at Camp Hearne. 2004.

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