In the spring of 1943, Walker County residents assembled to watch the first group of German POWs arrive at Camp Huntsville. The soldiers marched three miles from the train to Camp Huntsville singing German military songs in four-part harmony. Though the United States treated the POWs well, the armed guards in watchtowers and barbed wire fences served as reminders that they were still imprisoned. | Source: Sam Houston State University Archives.Download Original File
