Wyoming State Library Digitizes German POW News Journals

From Wyoming News Now:

The [Wyoming] state library just completed the digitization of 5 titles of German POW camp newspapers from World War 2.

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Captured by allies in northern Africa, these prisoners were held in Wyoming, in several camps that were operational from 1942 to 1945.

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“Its a great resource, for looking for anyone, for just general history for genealogy work, for Wyoming history. each newspaper had a little bit of unique information about it, what was around these cities and towns, at the time and some of these towns are no longer there,” said Travis Pollok- Digital Collections & Legislative Librarian, State Library

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