Index to Prisoners on the Plains

GERMAN POWs IN AMERICA

By Glenn Thompson

This is a partial index of "Prisoners on the Plains" a hard cover 8 1/2" x 11" book by Glenn Thompson containing compelling personal accounts and photographs by former POWs, and the American servicemen and civilians whose lives intersected in the midwest in 1943. An invaluable, historical resource, it has 304 pages, 125 rare photographs, dust cover, fully indexed, and large print.

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Partial Index By Subject:

Atlanta Internment Camp


American Flag Display
Activation Announcement
Site chosen andpurchased
"Beach Head Murphy"


Camp Mascot


Branch Camps, see "Branch Camps"
Buildings
Civilian Personnel
Conn Bus Line
Construction
Disciplinary Barracks
Efficient Operation
Fire Department
Food Preparation
Guard Towers
Heating Plant Chimney
Holdrege Service Center
Hospital and Medical Care


Malaria

Inactivation


Sale

Landscaping
Labor, Prisoner of War, see Labor
Layout
Main Gate Sign
Military Personnel at Camp


Life at Camp
Officers
Recreation
Response to Camp
Response to PWs
Tenth Mountain Division

Military Police


Guards
In Camp
In Town

Motor Pool
Music
Officer's Club
Post Exchange
Post Office
Processing of POWs


Number of POWs Processed

Public Relations
Security


Fraternization
Horse Patrol
K-9 Corp

Special Services
Sports
Stockade
The Spotlight
Transportation
U.S.O.
Veterinary Office
Vicotry Garden
Water Tower

Atlanta Women's Society
Branch Camps


Chapter
Need for
Alma
Benkelman
Bertrand
Cawker City, KS
Elwood
Fort Hays Experimental Station, KS
Franklin
Grand Island
Hall county Cornhusker Division
Hastings
Hays Center
Hebron
Indianola
Kearney
Lexington
Ogallala
Palisade
Weeping Water

Camp Alva, OK
Camp Carson, CO
Camp Clarinda, IA
Camp Clark, MO
Camp Concordia, KS
Camp Croft, SC
Camp Custer, MI
Camp Forest, TN
Camp Lincoln, see Branch Camps,

Cawker City

Camp Ripley, MN
Camp Scottsbluff, NE
Camp Shanks, NJ
Camp Shelby, MS
Conscientious Objectors Camp
Concordia College, KS
Escapes


Number of attempts
Reasons for Escapes

Fort Crook, NE
Fort Eustis, VA
Fort Kearney, RI
Fort Leavenworth, KS
Fort Riley, KS
Fort Robinson, NE
Fort Springfield, IL
Geneva Convention
Grace Lutheran Church, Hebron, NE
Immigration back to America of PSs
Italian POWs
Japanese POWs
Labor, Provided by POWs


In Camp
Crisis
Farm
On Strike
Pay
Sugar Beet Labor
In Town
"War Unit"

Nazism


Anti-Nazi feeling among POWs
Concern about
Present in Camp
Separation of Nazis from other POWs
"Swastika Incidents"

Norfolk, VA
North Africa Corp
Prisoner of War Camps in America


Number of POWs in U.S.
U.S. Agreement ot have
Problems
Ratio

"PW" or "POW"
Public Response to Camp Personnel


Positive Regard
Negative Regard

Public Response to Prisoners of War


Positive Regard
Concern for welfare of POWs
Fears related to POWs
Negative response to PWs
Relationships with POWs, selected examples

POW Response to United States and Camp Atlanta

Positive regard
Fears and Concerns
Individual Prisoner Experiences of War and Camp Life
Negative response
Response to V-E Day

POW Life at Camp
Etc...

Partial Index By Name:

Abrahamson, Eugene
Abrahamson, Mildred
Ahrens, Fritz
Aicher, L.C.
Anderson, Charles
Anderson, Thomas II
Arensmann, Wilhelm
Aronson, Howard
Ashmore, C.G.
Ball, George
Barnell, Leo
Barnick, Jake
Barhelmes, Ernst
Batie, Russ
Beezley, Floyd
Beitsch, Bunter
Bendorf, Bill
Blincow, Clyde
Bloom, Elizabeth
Boerner, hermann
Boles, Arthur
Bollis, Heinz
Branick, Jake II
Breen, Phillip II
Brehm, Bruno
Bremmers, Otto
Bridgeman, Ethel
Etc... 200+ names total

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Ordering Information

$49.95 per copy including postage and handling. Nebraska residents add $2.50 sales tax.

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Prisoners on the Plains
Phelps County Historical Society
Department #13
P.O. Box 164
Holdrege, Nebraska 68949

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Last Modified: 11/09