Camp Windsor
Camp Windsor was a former migrant labor camp near the Californian town of Windsor , which served as a camp for German prisoners of war from 1944. During and after the Second World War , Camp Windsor was a branch camp of Camp Beale near Marysville in California's long valley , now Beale Air Force Base .
The prisoners of war interned at Camp Windsor consisted mainly of submarine crews and members of the German Africa Corps . They helped grow grapes, apples and plums in agricultural Sonoma County while in captivity .
After the existence of Camp Windsor was forgotten, the American filmmaker Robyn Kasper produced a roughly half-hour documentary about the prisoner-of-war camp, which received the Jack Taylor Media Award in 2015 from the Sonoma County Historical Society, a local history society .
gallery
Exhibition "WWII comes to Windsor" ( Eng . The Second World War comes to Windsor ) in the Hembree House Museum
Remains on the site of the former prison camp
I come back across the sea - carving of a German prisoner of war
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literature
- Gaye LeBaron: Camp Windsor a friendly prison for German POWs , in: The Press Democrat of December 6, 1992.
Web links
- Camp Windsor , 27-minute documentary by Robyn Kasper on YouTube
Remarks
- ↑ James Lanaras: Filmmaker honored for 'Camp Windsor' documentary , in: The Press Democrat of April 3, 2015, last accessed on May 20, 2017.
Coordinates: 38 ° 32 '54.2 " N , 122 ° 50' 12.8" W.