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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		In 1945, There Was a POW Camp in Rhinelander
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:03:34
	Publish Date:		2019-06-19 05:00:00
	Description:		This week's A Northwoods Moment in History comes from a question to our Curious North series. Patty Fitzpatrick from Rhinelander recently asked: Is it true that there was a POW camp in Rhinelander during World War II?" To answer Patty's question, here's Gary Entz for this week's A Northwoods Moment in History . In the early years of World War II, German prisoners captured in battle were held in Great Britain. However, in 1942 a rumor spread that Hitler planed on air dropping weapons to his soldiers held in British detention camps. This led to the United States agreeing to take charge of prisoners, and in early 1944 German POWs began arriving in the U.S. During the war, 425,000 German prisoners of war were housed in 700 camps spread across the entire United States. Of that number, slightly more than 20,000 were placed in POW camps located in Wisconsin. Wisconsin’s main POW facility was Camp McCoy, located in Monroe County. However, there were another 36 branch camps spread out across
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