1.08.239

Book

2007 Approximate

German POWs in the Midwest 1943-46. Material: paper. Size: 5 /14" W. x 8 1/2" L. Description: buff colored paperback cover; black cover graphic of marching German military prisoners of war on a country road from Camp Algona in Iowa; cover title: "Held in the Heartland" - contents: 46 numbered pages of narrative, photos and drawings both in English and German.

Purchased by WCHS staff 9/13/2008 at the traveling "BUS-eum" that stopped in Waseca with their "TRACES" exhibit featuring the story of World War II POW camps in the Midwest. Camps closest to Waseca County were in Faribault, Hollandale, Montgovery, New Ulm, Owatonna and Wells.

Held in the Heartland: German POWs 1943-46