Alabama News Center — Re-enactment commemorates Pickens County, Alabama’s World War II POWs

By: Jim Plott / Alabama Living

Listen.

That’s the sound of German soldiers marching in cadence.

But they are not heading off to battle. For these soldiers, the war is over.

These weary, haggard but still proud Germans are marching toward their new home for the duration of World War II – on U.S. soil.

Camp Aliceville in Pickens County stood as one of the largest prison camps in the United States during the war. At its height it housed 6,150 German prisoners, most of whom were part of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps.

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