Windfall Indiana World War II POW Camp
Windfall Indiana World War II POW Camp was a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp from 1944 to 1945 in Windfall, Indiana, United States.[1] The camp was located near the site of the Windfall High School.[2] The location, on the northeast side of town, is now home to a mobile home community. At its peak the camp housed 1,500 German prisoners and their prison officers. The prisoners were put to work laboring on local farms.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Memories from those who were there - German Prisoners of War Camp". Retrieved 2023-10-08.
- ^ "Windfall Prisoner of War Branch Camp". Indiana Military. 2011-04-03. Retrieved 2016-04-14.
- ^ ""Eden for Enemy Prisoners": The Role of International Humanitarian Law in Indiana During World War II". Indiana Legal Archive. Retrieved 2016-04-14.
Further reading
[edit]- Contact the Tipton County Historical Society for the booklet "Returning to Remember" for first person accounts of the POW camp.
- Returning to Remember