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Texas POWs [audio 4min]

In the 1940s, 150,000 German prisoners were taken from the battlefields in North Africa, all the way to Texas. Weekend America's Bill Radke talks with Carol Brincefield, a teacher and a historian with the Lavaca County Historical Committee, about a section of the Geneva Convention that led to Texas becoming the country's biggest repository for German prisoners of war.
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