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Camp Aliceville : ウィキペディア英語版 | Camp Aliceville Camp Aliceville was a World War II era prisoner of war (POW) camp in Aliceville, Alabama. Its construction began in August 1942, it received its first prisoners in June 1943, and it shut down in September 1945. It was the largest World War II POW camp in the Southeastern United States, holding between 3,000 and 6,000 German prisoners at any one time. ==History==
The construction of Camp Aliceville began in August 1942 and was completed by December. The camp began receiving German POWs, at first mostly from Erwin Rommel's Afrika Corps, in June 1943. It comprised 400 wood-frame barracks,〔 which could hold as many as 6,000 prisoners and 900 Army personnel.〔 Aliceville was the largest〔 of the eleven POW camps in the Southeastern U.S.〔 By the end of the war Camp Aliceville held German prisoners captured in many different locations.〔 It closed on September 30, 1945.〔 The camp was dismantled and sold for scrap after the war,〔 and its only remaining trace is an old stone chimney.〔
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