Can anyone recommend a non fiction book about German POW camps in the UK & US?

Question

Survivor - I know that there were camps in the US because my Granda was in one of them!

Answer 1

Here's one:

he German POWs in South Carolina
Segal, Deann Bice

"By the end of W.W.II, over 425,000 German, Italian, and Japanese prisoners were interned in prisoner of war camps in the United States. In South Carolina, the War Department established more than twenty camps in seventeen counties housing 8,000 to 11,000 German prisoners. These prisoners provided much needed labor in agricultural communities and were often the only direct connection with the "enemy" experienced on the home front.

This book explores the general policies of the United States toward captured prisoners of war and to analyze their implementation in South Carolina from the perspectives of the American officials, the German prisoners, and the communities that housed the camps. This book examines the history of prisoners of war in South Carolina, focusing on life behind the wire, the labor performed by POWs, and the impact of this labor in South Carolina, the adherence to the Geneva Convention, attitudes that influenced policies for the treatment of prisoners, local reaction to the POWs and their labor, as well as the prisoners' impressions of the conditions in which they were held.


Reviews

“In her thoroughly researched and timely book, “German POWs in South Carolina; the Enemy Among Us,” Ms. Deann Bice Segal gives us a glimpse of the 8,000 to 11,000 German Prisoners of war who found themselves incarcerated in South Carolina during the Second World War. These POWs, “the enemy among us” or the so-called “Supermen” of the 1940’s were mysterious to the people of rural South Carolina who, as the war continued, needed laborers to assist in agriculture, the lumber industry and manufacturing. Ms. Segal tells us about the complex relationships that arose in southern communities and among American government agencies that, in wartime, developed policies for accommodating the prisoners who lived in the camps. "

and here's a bibliography - the first one's a book; see link 3 to buy it

Arnold Krammer, Nazi Prisoners of War in America (New York: Stein and Day, 1979). Arnold P. Krammer, "When the Afrika Korps Came to Texas," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 80 (January 1977). Robert Tissing, "Stalag Texas, 1943-1945," Military History of Texas and the Southwest 13 (Fall 1976). Richard Paul Walker, Prisoners of War in Texas during World War II (Ph.D. dissertation, North Texas State University, 1980). Richard P. Walker, "The Swastika and the Lone Star: Nazi Activity in Texas POW Camps," Military History of the Southwest 19 (Spring 1989). Weekly and Semi-Monthly Reports on Prisoners of War, June 1942-30 June 1946, Office of the Provost Marshall General (U.S. National Archives, Washington).

Link 4 has 15 books on the topic.

Answer 2

"The Great Escape" is a good read, though it's not about camps in the UK and US.
I know there were camps in the UK, but they tended to send people out to work on the farms (somewhat supervised). Don't know anything about the US. Did they have them? They were so far away from the action I would have thought they didn't have any. (Yes I do know they fought in the second world war - eventually)

Answer 3

I read a fiction book about the war between Germany and USA.It is called 'Stones in Water'.It is mainly about two boys who struggle to survive under German prison labour, who escape.

Answer 4

One of the best books on this subject:

http://www.amazon.com/Nazi-Prisoners-America-Arnold-Krammer/dp/0812885619

Answer 5

the one that got away.true story of p.o.w. in u.k that got to USA.