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POWs

Header from Farragut News. Bonner County Historical Society.

    One of the less well known aspects of the station's life was that it housed about 850 German prisoners of war, transferred from Arizona in 1945.  They lived in comparative comfort and worked industriously at Farragut, whether in the laundries or at the Officers' Club.  The propaganda German pows had been exposed to indicated erroneously that Luftwaffe bombing had heavily damaged most American cities.  One American officer declared that he felt privileged to be able to show the prisoners of war the fairness and strength of the United States.