{"id":2487,"date":"2025-11-06T13:14:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T13:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allthingstonyj.com\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2025-11-06T13:14:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T13:14:31","slug":"german-pows-in-alabama-the-lost-story-of-aliceville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allthingstonyj.com\/?p=2487","title":{"rendered":"German POW&#8217;s in ALABAMA? The Lost Story of Aliceville."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/allthingstonyj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Aliceville-No-Words.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/allthingstonyj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Aliceville-No-Words-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allthingstonyj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Aliceville-No-Words-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/allthingstonyj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Aliceville-No-Words-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/allthingstonyj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Aliceville-No-Words-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/allthingstonyj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Aliceville-No-Words-750x422.png 750w, https:\/\/allthingstonyj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Aliceville-No-Words.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n2I2Dv4SD1A\">Click here to see my latest Short Film of Aliceville, Alabama &#8211; the location of a WW II German POW Camp!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Step back in time to World War II and discover the fascinating story of the Aliceville German POW Camp in Alabama \u2014 one of the largest prisoner-of-war camps in the United States. Learn how over 6,000 German soldiers lived, worked, and even built unexpected friendships in small-town America. From barbed wire fences to cultural exchange, this is a story of humanity in the midst of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">History of the camp can be found here &#8211; https:\/\/www.alicevillemuseum.org\/german-pow.html<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aliceville is a quaint little town that was once full of life but by the abandoned stores &#8211; has seen better days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here to see my latest Short Film of Aliceville, Alabama &#8211; the location of a WW II German POW Camp! Step back in time to World War II and discover the fascinating story of the Aliceville German POW Camp in Alabama \u2014 one of the largest prisoner-of-war camps in the United States. Learn how &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/allthingstonyj.com\/?p=2487\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[407,399],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-micro-adventures","category-youtube","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allthingstonyj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allthingstonyj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allthingstonyj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allthingstonyj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allthingstonyj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allthingstonyj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2489,"href":"https:\/\/allthingstonyj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions\/2489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allthingstonyj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allthingstonyj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allthingstonyj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}