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During World War II, more than fifteen thousand German and Italian soldiers came to Missouri. This was no invasionary force; rather these were prisoners of war, part of a flood of almost a half-million men captured and sent to the United States, held here until the end of the war. Life as a POW in the thirty camps scattered across Missouri was a surprisingly pleasant experience. The men ate well and were quartered under the same conditions as the Americans assigned to guard them, and the prisoners often enjoyed a great deal of freedom. The internees worked on local farms, often guarded only by a bored GI snoozing under a shade tree. They organized camp theater troupes, sports leagues, and orchestras, and some prisoners studied at the camp library for classes at the POW university. For residents of the mostly small towns where these camps were located, the arrival of enemy POWs engendered a range of emotionsfirst fear and apprehension, then curiosity, and finally, in many cases, a feeling of fondness for the men they had come to know and like. In The Enemy among Us , David Fiedler tells the story of entirely ordinary people who lived in extraordinary times. This fascinating tale rec

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Author

David Winston Fiedler

Publisher

St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society Press ; Distributed by University of Missouri Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781883982492

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, History, Humanities

Rating

4.05 / 5 (19 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14