The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 80, July 1976 - April, 1977 Page: 281
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procession leaves the POW camp for the cemetery, Camp
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ture soon to be built at Camp Swift. Ironically, considering the earlier use of
the area, the $i i million structure will be a medium security prison-a
Federal Youth Center for youthful first offenders. All that remains of the
original POW camp are some concrete barracks foundations, several ware-
houses, and an abandoned camp cemetery in which lie an unknown
number of German prisoners. Despite these meager remnants of the war
years, the Bastrop Chamber of Commerce reports that affluent German
visitors-alumni of the "Class of '44"-still return, periodically, to poke
among the ruins and look up friends in town."2
So it goes across the state. Camps were sold back to the communities,
62Austin American-Statesman, September 19, 1976; Bastrop Advertiser, September
16, 1976; Bastrop Chamber of Commerce to A. P. K., July I, 1976, interview.
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