POW CAMP ALICEVILLE

WORLD WAR II

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Glenda Jones

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Aliceville POW Museum...friend, Bonnie, lives in Reform and taught first grade for years in Aliceville. Went with my other Dixie Diva friends to visit her one day and she showed us her neck of the Alabama woods!! Never knew Alabama had a German Prisoner of War Camp!!!

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Camp Aliceville--never knew Alabama had a German prisoner of war camp until friend, Bonnie showed us around.

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Camp Aliceville for German prisoners of war during WWII in Pickens County, Alabama. There's a museum there now. Very interesting place.

Aliceville Museum and Cultural Arts Center - Encyclopedia of Alabama

Watercolor of Camp Aliceville Guard Tower. "Located in Aliceville, Pickens County, the Aliceville Museum and Cultural Arts Center opened in February 1995. The museum features permanent exhibits on Camp Aliceville, a World War II German prisoner of war (POW) camp that operated from 1942 to 1945; the Aliceville Coca-Cola Bottling Company, which was active from 1910 to 1978; and an extensive collection of U.S. military uniforms and equipment."

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Aliceville (Alabama) USA POW Camp

Aliceville Alabama POW Camp opened June 1943 and operated until September 1945. Over 3400 German POW’s were held at the camp. Two types of chits were issued with the top line of type 1 reading Prisoner of War Canteen and type 2 reading Prisoner of War Camp Canteen.Denominations of 1, 2, 5, and 10 cents were issued. http://worldandmilitarynotes.com/pow/aliceville-alabama-usa-pow-camp/

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Pickens County - Encyclopedia of Alabama

During World War II, the Pickens County city of Aliceville served as the site of one of the largest German prisoner of war camps in the nation.

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Army Corps Of Engineers

World War II Lesson 5 - Document 2

June 2, 1943: Aliceville's World War II prisoner-of-war camp receives its first contingent of captured German soldiers. By the end of the week, Aliceville housed 3,000 prisoners. Nearly 5,000 POWs eventually would be imprisoned in the facility, the largest of four such camps in Alabama.

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From Alabama History: "During World War II, the Aliceville Internment Camp held 6,000 German prisoners of war. The camp received its first prisoners in 1942 and closed in 1945. The majority of the prisoners were captured in 1943 from the German Afrika Korps."

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On September 30, 1945: Aliceville Camp, a prisoner-of-war camp in Pickens County for members of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Africa Korps, was deactivated.[pics & film]

In 1940, Aliceville in Pickens County, Alabama was an isolated, rural small town with a population of around 2,000 located in West Central Alabama. Starting in the summer of 1943, the population swelled to almost 10,000 in one year. Aliceville, ... Read More