German POWs in Texas Learn a Baylor Lesson
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 […]
