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Camp Stark German Prisoner Of War Camp
877 Stark Hwy, Stark,
NH 3582
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USA
Latitude & Longitude:
44° 37' 6.9276",
-71° 23' 14.8524"
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New Hampshire State
Historical Marker
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CAMP STARK
GERMAN PRISONER OF WAR CAMP
In the spring of 1944 a high fence and four guard towers transferred a former Civilian Conservation Corps camp on this site into New Hampshire's sole World War II prisoner of war camp. Approximately 250 German and Austrian soldiers, most captured in North Africa and Normandy, lived in Camp Stark while working in the forest cutting pulpwood vital to wartime industry. The camp closed in the spring of 1946 when the prisoners of war were returned to their homeland. Several maintained th new friendships they had formed with local residents. Germans and Americans attended a reunion here in 1986.
Last updated: 9/21/2011 11:05 |
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Camp Stark German Prisoner Of War Camp New Hampshire
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