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Camp Concordia | |
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Concordia, Kansas | |
Area | 640 acres |
Site information | |
Open to the public | museum built inside building T-9 |
Site history | |
Built | 1943 |
Built for | US Army |
In use | 1945 |
Materials | wood frame, Celotex, asphalt roll roofing |
Camp Concordia was a prisoner-of-war camp operating from May 1943 to November 1945, located two miles north and one mile east of Concordia, Kansas. The camp was used primarily for German Army prisoners during World War II who had been captured in battles that took place in Africa.
Camp Concordia was the largest POW camp in Kansas, holding over 4,000 prisoners at its peak. It consisted of a complex of 300 buildings and was staffed by 800 United States soldiers. Uniquely it had a self initiated reeducation program, the Prisoner of War University,later supported by the German prisoners of war in the United States#Special Projects Division Few structures remained, which form the core of a museum, opened in 2015.