This list of Prisoner of War Camps, Italian Service Unit Camps, and Prisoner of War Hospitals is based on weekly reports located on NARA microfilm #66-538 (population lists June 1942-June 1946). Additional locations based on newspapers, interviews, and other NARA records (at College Park and Regional Archives).

The POW Camps in Minnesota during World War II included:

*Bena, Cass County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA, sometimes Concordia, KS)
*Bird Island, Renville County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA)
*Crookston, Polk County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA)
*Cut Foot Sious, Itasca, Cass and Beltrami Counties, MN (branch camp under Concordia, KS)
*Deer River, Itasca County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA)
*Fairmont, Martin County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA)
*Faribault, Rice County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA)
*Grand Rapids, Itasca County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA)
*Hollandale, Freeborn County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA)
*Howard Lake, Wright County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA)
*Montgomery, Le Sueur County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA)
*Moorhead, Clay County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA)
*New Ulm, Brown County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA)
*Olivia, Renville County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA)
*Ortonville, Big Stone and Lac qui Parle Counties, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA)
*Owatonna, Steele County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA, sometimes Concordia, KS)
*Remer, Cass County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA, sometimes Concordia, KS)
*St. Charles, Winona County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA)
*Wells, Faribault County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA)

For more information about these camps, please see:

www.weltkriegsopfer.de

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