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Windfall Indiana World War II POW Camp

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ8024153 ↗
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Windfall Indiana World War II POW Camp was a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp from 1944 to 1945 in Windfall, Indiana, United States. The camp was located near the site of the Windfall High School. The location, on the northeast side of town, is now home to a mobile home community. At its peak the camp housed 1,500 German prisoners and their prison officers. The prisoners were put to work laboring on local farms.

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Further reading

Contact the Tipton County Historical Society for the booklet "Returning to Remember" for first person accounts of the POW camp.

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