Comes with hand-signed C.O.A.

This incredibly rare 1944 WWII Prisoner of War letter was written by a captured German P.O.W. at Camp Joseph T. Robinson. During World War II, Camp Joseph T. Robinson in North Little Rock, Arkansas, served as a German prisoner-of-war camp, with a capacity of 4000 prisoners. The initial German prisoners of war were members of Rommel’s Afrika Corps captured in North Africa. Lieutenant Colonel Virgil Caldwell was in charge of the prisoners at Camp Robinson in 1943. By 1945, about 23,000 Germans and Italians had been sent to Arkansas camps. The prisoners were frequently assigned farm work to fill the void left by Arkansas men who were fighting in the war. The camps were disassembled in 1946 at which time the prisoners returned to Europe. The United States had a positive effect on the former prisoners-of-war because many of them made repatriation to the United States government and returned to America.

What makes this letter incredibly scary is that is was written on the U.S. Prisoner of War specially made P.O.W. letter sheet. This P.O.W. letter was used by U.S.A. based German and Japanese prisoners of war. These letters were then passed through the P.O.W. Camp Robinson U.S. censor and mailed to that soldiers address back home. These letters are very rare to find because they also passed through Nazi censorship and contains the German Nazi stamp on the backside as well.

This letter comes from one collection of P.O.W. letters saved by the German soldier’s family back in Germany. These letters were not usually saved by the P.O.W. families and is one of the first P.O.W. letters on this censor sheet we have ever seen or worked with.

This would make an amazing and very interesting addition to any WWII collection.