P.O.W. Camp Site

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P.O.W. Camp Site

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Prisoner Of War (P. O. W.) Camp Site, 1942-1946)

During World War II, a branch of the Roswell prisoner of war camp was established near here. The Artesia branch camp held up to five hundred prisoners, mostly Germans from Rommell's Afrikakorps (Africa Corps). They picked cotton and did other farm work to help alleviate labor shortages until early 1946.

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