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This list of Prisoner of War Camps, Italian Service Unit Camps, and Prisoner of War Hospitals is still being developed with new locations added as we work through the weekly reports located on NARA microfilm #66-538 (population lists June 1942-June 1946).
The POW Camps in Maryland during World War II included:
*Andrews Field, Prince George's County, MD (branch camp under Meade, MD), now Andrews Air Force Base
*Berlin, Worcester County, MD (branch camp under Somerset, MD)
*Cambridge, Dorchester County, MD (branch camp under Somerset, MD)
*Church Hill, Queen Anne's County, MD (branch camp under Somerset, MD)
*Easton, Talbot County, MD (branch camp under Somerset, MD)
*Edgewood Arsenal (Chemical Warfare Center), Gunpowder, Baltimore County, MD 21010 (base camp)
*Flintstone, Allegany County, MD (branch camp under Front Royal Remount Depot, VA)
*Frederick, Frederick County, MD (branch camp under Meade, MD)
*Gaithersburg, Montgomery County, MD (branch camp under Meade, MD)
*Holabird Signal Depot, Baltimore, Baltimore County, MD (base camp)
*Hunt (Fort), Sheridan Point, Calvert County, MD (branch camp under Meade, MD), cape on Patoxent River near Adelina
*Hurlock, Dorchester County, MD (branch camp under Someret, MD)
*Logan Field, Baltimore, Baltimore County, MD (branch camp under Holabird Signal Depot, MD)
*Meade (Fort George G.), near Odenton, Anne Arundel County, Maryland 20755 (base camp)
*Nanjemoy, Charles County, MD (branch camp under Meade, MD)
*Pikesville, Baltimore County, MD (branch camp under Meade, MD)
*Ritchie (Camp), Cascade, Frankling and Frederick Counties, MD, now Fort Ritchie
*Somerset (Camp), Westover, Somerset County, MD 21871 (base camp)
*Washington (Fort), Prince George's County, MD (branch camp under Meade, MD)
*Westminster, Carroll County, MD (branch camp under Meade, MD)
Camp Somerset had a branch camp in VA.
Fort George G. Meade had branch camps (hospitals) in IL and WA.
Enemy alien internment camps:
Fort George G. Meade, near Odenton, Anne Arundel County, MD 20755 (from June 1942 to December 1943)
Cemeteries:
Fort George G. Meade Post Cemetery, Ft. Geo. G. Meade, MD
For more information about these camps, please see:
www.denkmalprojekt.org
Fort George G. Meade Cemetery
www.globalsecurity.org
www.kriegsgefangen.de
www.volksbund.de
www.weltkriegsopfer.de
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