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Jan 11, 1944:
Nazi enforcers terrorize German POWs in U.S. internment camps
Franz Kettner, a private in the German army and a prisoner of war
at Camp Concordia in Kansas, is killed by a Nazi kangaroo court.
Internment camps for German prisoners of war were dominated by
Nazi enforcers, who killed as many as 150 of their fellow
prisoners during World War II. Only seven were officially
considered murder. Kettner's wrists were slashed so that his
death would be recorded as a suicide.
Even the smallest infraction could put German prisoners at risk.
Those who talked to guards, spoke English, or refused to parrot
the Nazi line were often beaten or killed. American camp
officials generally looked the other way because they appreciated
the discipline and order that the Nazis provided in the camps.
Prisoners who were not ethnically German and had been conscripted
into service were in particular danger from their fellow
prisoners.
In the later part of 1943, a rash of murders were committed at
camps all across America. When Corporal Johann Kunze was beaten
to death in an Oklahoma camp for allegedly providing Americans
with information, five Nazi sergeants were charged with his
murder. They were hanged in 1945 and became the first foreign
prisoners of war to meet that fate in the United States.
Eventually, American officials began separating the Nazis from
the anti-Nazi Germans. Despite Nazi threats that those who
opposed them would be in bad shape when the war was over,
anti-Nazi prisoners were often put in positions of power by
Americans when they were repatriated. The Nazis, on the other
hand, were widely scorned after Hitler's defeat.
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