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This list of Prisoner of War Camps, Italian Service Unit Camps, and Prisoner of War Hospitals is based on weekly reports located on NARA microfilm #66-538 (population lists June 1942-June 1946). Additional locations based on newspapers, interviews, and other NARA records (at College Park and Regional Archives).
The 21 POW Camps in Minnesota during World War II included only branch camps as follows:
Ada, Norman County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA)
Bena, Cass County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA, sometimes Concordia, KS)
Bird Island, Renville County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA)
Cokato, Wright County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA)
Crookston, Polk County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA)
Cut Foot Sioux, Itasca, Cass and Beltrami Counties, MN (branch camp under Concordia, KS) (see Deer River)
Deer River, Itasca County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA) (see Cut Foot Sioux)v
Fairmont, Martin County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA)
Faribault, Rice County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA)
Grand Rapids, Itasca County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA)
Hollandale, Freeborn County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA)
Howard Lake, Wright County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA)
Montgomery, Le Sueur County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA)
Moorhead, Clay County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA)
New Ulm, Brown County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA)
Olivia, Renville County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA)
Ortonville, Big Stone and Lac qui Parle Counties, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA)
Owatonna, Steele County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA, sometimes Concordia, KS)
Princeton, Millo Lacs and Sherburne, MN
Remer, Cass County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA, sometimes Concordia, KS)
St. Charles, Winona County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA)
Warren, Marshall County, MN (branch camp under Crook, NE)
Wells, Faribault County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA)
Enemy alien internment camp:
Ripley (Fort), near Little Falls, Morrison County, MN (Italian)
There were 21 branch camps, and 1 internment location in MN. More information in my latest book titled Prisoner of War Camps Across America and is available in Kindle format on Amazon.
For more information about these camps, please see:
www.globalsecurity.org
www.volksbund.de
www.kriegsgefangen.de
www.denkmalprojekt.org
www.weltkriegsopfer.de
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