Description
Tour the camps, learn stories of the daily lives of the POWs, and discover the impact they had on the Old Dominion.
During World War II, Virginians watched as German and Italian prisoners invaded the Old Dominion. At least 17,000 Germans and countless Italians lived in over twenty camps across the state and worked on five military installations. Farmers hired POWs to pick apples. Fertilizer companies, lumber yards, and hospitals hired them. At first a phenomenon of war in Virginia's backyard, these former enemy combatants became familiar to many--often developing a rapport with their employers. Among them were die-hired Nazis and Fascists, but they benefited from double standards that placed them in better jobs and conditions than African Americans.
Historians Kathryn Coker and Jason Wetzel tell a different story of the Old Dominion at War.
Author: Kathryn Roe Coker, Jason Wetzel
Publisher: History Press
Published: 11/14/2022
Pages: 168
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.60h x 6.20w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781467144414
ISBN10: 146714441X
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,
- History | Military | United States
- History | Wars & Conflicts | World War II | General