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re: Did you know German & Italian WW2 POWs were imprisoned in the US?
Posted on 8/6/25 at 9:57 pm to Reservoir dawg
Posted on 8/6/25 at 9:57 pm to Reservoir dawg
They are buried at Greenwood Cemetery
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Posted on 8/6/25 at 9:59 pm to gungho
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There was a German POW camp in Ruston, LA
I did read where they enjoyed it more in Rustin than in Germany and hated to go back.
Posted on 8/6/25 at 10:07 pm to MyNameIsNobody
TL James that provided the land for some of the camp walked in my great great grandmothers home and provided false property paperwork and force her to sign it. She lost 500 acres to those sons of bitches because she was illiterate and didn’t know what she was signing. They did a lot of country folk that way. Need to get the toomer trees guy recipe.
Posted on 8/6/25 at 10:08 pm to LSUFreek
quote:One prisoner was Dietrich von Choltitz, the last wartime Governor of Paris, who disobeyed Hitler's order to burn the city, resulting in the famous "Is Paris Burning?" phone call from Adolph
Camp Clinton was a World War II prisoner of war facility located in Clinton, Mississippi, just off present-day McRaven Road, east of Springridge Road. Camp Clinton was home to 3,000 German and Italian POWs, most of whom had been captured in Africa and were members of the Afrika Korps.
Upon arrival at the camp, von Choltitz was quoted as saying, "I was just in Paris. How the frick did I get to Mississippi???"
Posted on 8/6/25 at 10:58 pm to duckblind56
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Camp Claiborne was originally established in 1940 to train soldiers for WWII
I was unaware that was the birthplace of the 82nd and 101st.
Posted on 8/6/25 at 11:20 pm to LSUFreek
My maternal grandfather owned a place that housed some of the higher officers in charge of the camp near Jerome, Arkansas. I don't remember the name of the camp. My aunt told the story of going there for lunch and being surprised that the German serving them spoke English. There was also a Japanese internment camp in the area, I think.
I met an old German guy in the early 90's (RIP Max) here in Bavaria who was captured by the British in N. Africa, turned over to the Americans and shipped to America. They sailed around the Horn of Africa, landed in Seattle, and were shipped by train to Texas. Max acted as an interpreter and said the Americans were irritated that the Germans spent so much time playing tennis... They had to create make work jobs so it wouldn't look like the Germans were being coddled so much.
I met an old German guy in the early 90's (RIP Max) here in Bavaria who was captured by the British in N. Africa, turned over to the Americans and shipped to America. They sailed around the Horn of Africa, landed in Seattle, and were shipped by train to Texas. Max acted as an interpreter and said the Americans were irritated that the Germans spent so much time playing tennis... They had to create make work jobs so it wouldn't look like the Germans were being coddled so much.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 5:34 am to duckblind56
Yes I grew up in Alexandra. My grandfather back in early 20th century used to own quite a bit of timber land in Forest Hill/Woodworth/Glenmora area and the sawmill at McNary. I used to drive thru the abandoned roads of Camp Claiborne and camp in the woods around Spring Creek. Beautiful area
Posted on 8/7/25 at 5:54 am to Tortious
quote:We needed the labor
Anyone know the reason we shipped them back here? Seems like there could've been places closer to theater that we could've used so I am curious as to why. I do sort of understand why they were disbursed once here though.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 6:03 am to LSUFreek
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Wow. And I thought Des Allemands were all cajuns.
My ancestors were French speaking Germans and Cajun.
There is an area in present day France that used to be Germany. Kind of went back and forth between the two.
This post was edited on 8/7/25 at 6:04 am
Posted on 8/7/25 at 6:17 am to LSUFreek
Yes. There was a German POW camp in Port Allen that used the prisoners to harvest sugar cane. There was also a camp east of Hammond near Lorraine that used prisoners to harvest timber.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 6:24 am to Revelator
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Yes. And after the war and they were released, many stayed in towns like Des Allemands, which means,” The Germans” in French.
But that's not how Des Allemands got its name. That goes back to the 1700's when Germans were imported to the colony to keep the lazy French folks in New Orleans from starving to death.
Does anyone remember the Three Coins Inn in downtown Baton Rouge? I always heard that Max, the owner, was a German POW at the Port Allen Camp who immigrated to the US in the 1950's. I don't know if that's true or not, but that was the rumor.
This post was edited on 8/7/25 at 7:54 am
Posted on 8/7/25 at 6:29 am to OldCat55
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My land was, for the most part, cleared by German POWs. Their prison camp was in the vicinity of the Hammond airport.
Are you near the old Bombing Range?
Posted on 8/7/25 at 6:45 am to LSUFreek
My mom used to talk about german POW's held in LaPlace.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 7:21 am to landmanner
BAYOU WORDSMITH — WWII: Germans in our midst
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It was decided to send all 20,000 of them to Louisiana where they would be put in camps and made to work in agriculture — cotton, rice, and sugarcane fields. In Jeanerette there were nearly 900 men housed in barracks and tents on Hope Plantation and on land where Jeanerette High School is now. Franklin and St. Martinville camps housed German soldiers too. There were others across the state.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 7:52 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
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But that's not how Des Allemands got its name.
Well that’s how I heard the story. Certainly in Cajun French, Des Allemands means the Germans. Now how those German people settled there, that part of my story might be off
Posted on 8/7/25 at 8:10 am to Revelator
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Des Allemands means the Germans. Now how those German people settled there, that part of my story might be off
It's where a lot of Germans settled along the Mississippi in the 1700's. I was assuming you were implying the area was named "Des Allemands" because of German POWs settling there after the war.
German Coast aka Cote des Allemands
This post was edited on 8/7/25 at 8:16 am
Posted on 8/7/25 at 9:54 am to 777Tiger
quote:The OP limited the discussion to Italian and German PWs. Just glance at the subject line.
except for the Japs
But you could add the Russians to the category of killing their own men,
This post was edited on 8/8/25 at 4:28 pm
Posted on 8/7/25 at 9:56 am to Rabby
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The OP limited the discussion to Italian and German PWs. Just glance at the subject line.
responding to the post that "nobody wants to kill their own troops," what are you, the hall monitor ?
Posted on 8/7/25 at 9:57 pm to gungho
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Yes I grew up in Alexandra. My grandfather back in early 20th century used to own quite a bit of timber land in Forest Hill/Woodworth/Glenmora area and the sawmill at McNary. I used to drive thru the abandoned roads of Camp Claiborne and camp in the woods around Spring Creek. Beautiful area
Guarantee I knew your grandfather based on what you posted.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 7:58 am to duckblind56
Interesting. Apparently he was quite wealthy, had a huge house on, I think, Marye St in Alex. My mom grew up in that environment but he lost it all, from what I've been told, in timber speculation in AZ. There is a tiny town in AZ named McNary. By the time I came along, all the money was gone and I most assuredly did not grow up with wealth.
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