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Originally Posted by NotGolfer
I grew up in Southern Minnesota but didn't learn until recent years that there was a German prisoner of war camp not far from there. I don't recall the town now...but it may have been Owatonna. I would venture to guess there were several throughout the U.S. during that time.
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Looks like Minnesota had more than 15 POW camps for German prisoners. 400,000 men came to MN. They picked up a lot of the labor shortage from Minnesotans fighting in WWII.
As an aside, have you watched the movie
Fargo or seen the Series of the same name? They seem a bit heavy on the Minnesotan accent. I met hundreds of Minnesotas in Middlebrook Hall (an about 12 story residence hall on the U of MN Minneapoils campus) and was at the U of MN Law School first as a student and then as a cataloging/reference librarian. I cataloged all the WESTLAW files for a national project started by one of the U of MN Law Librarians among others. This was from late Summer of 1986 through late November of 1991 that I lived in the Twin Cities.
Also like to see how the books by John Sandford ( various Prey books and other series) portray Minnesota, Wisconsin and other places.
I had never been to Minnesota in 1986 but my double cousin Tom married into a very large Irish family in Edina, MN and they said that I would like it there. For the most part they were right. And the U of MN was the highest ranked of the law schools I managed to get into at about 17th in the US according to some of the rating systems.