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The evening of Sept. 29, 1945, 2,500 Nazi soldiers settled into their wooden bunks tucked behind barbed wire fences for a muggy, mottled Camp Swift sunset in Bastrop, Texas. These German prisoners of the recently-victorious Allied Forces pulled taut their sheets and massaged sweat from the backs of their necks as they heard the prison
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