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)
•Warren, Marshall County, MN (branch camp under Crook, NE)
•Wells, Faribault County, MN (branch camp under Algona, IA)

Enemy alien internment camp:
•Ripley (Fort), near Little Falls, Morrison County, MN (Italian)

For more information about these camps, please see:

www.weltkriegsopfer.de

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