- Title
- Rudolf Velte, Camp Pine POW
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- Approximate Date
- 1945-1946
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- Description
- Camp Pine was a World War II POW camp located east of the Des Plaines River in what is now the Cook County Forest Preserve in Des Plaines, Illinois. Over 200 German soldiers captured in North Africa and Italy were interned at Camp Pine during the war until the camp closed in July 1946. Many inmates worked as farmhands on nearby farms earning approximately 80 cents a day. This photo of Rudolf Velte in uniform was taken by a photographer sent by a church group that visited the POWs.
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- Subject
- ["World War, 1939-1945.","Prisoners of war."]
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- Theme
- ["#War"]
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