This list of Prisoner of War Camps, Italian Service Unit Camps, and Prisoner of War Hospitals is still being developed with new locations added as we work through the weekly reports.

The POW Camps in Colorado during World War II included:

Aultt, CO (branch camp under Camp Carson, CO)
Brighton, CO (branch camp under Camp Carson, CO)
Brush, CO (branch camp under Camp Carson, CO)
Camp Carson, near Colorado Springs, CO 80913, now Fort Carson (base camp)
Camp Greeley, Greeley, CO
Camp Hale, Pando, CO, dismantled in 1965
Delta, CO (branch camp under Camp Carson, CO)
Eaton, CO (branch camp under Camp Carson, CO)
Fort Collins, CO (branch camp under Camp Carson, CO)
Fort Morgan, CO (branch camp under Camp Carson, CO)
Fruita, CO (branch camp under Camp Carson, CO)
Galeton, CO (branch camp under Camp Carson, CO)
Glenwood Springs, CO (branch camp under Camp Carson, CO)
Holly, CO (branch camp under Camp Carson, CO)
Johnstown, CO (branch camp under Camp Carson, CO)
Keenesburg, CO (branch camp under Camp Carson, CO)
Kersey, CO (branch camp under Camp Carson, CO)
Longmont, CO (branch camp under Camp Carson, CO)
Loveland, CO (branch camp under Camp Carson, CO)
Ovid, CO (branch camp under Camp Carson, CO)
Pierce, CO (branch camp under Camp Carson, CO)
Rocky Ford, CO (branch camp under Camp Carson, CO)
Rocky Mountain Arsenal, CO (branch camp under Camp Carson, CO)
Sterling, CO (branch camp under Camp Carson, CO)
Sugar City, CO (branch camp under Camp Carson, CO)
Trinidad Camp, Trinidad, CO 81082
Wiggins, CO (branch camp under Camp Carson, CO)

POWs are buried at Fort Logan National Cemetery.

For more information about these camps, please see:
www.globalsecurity.org
www.volksbund.de
www.kriegsgefangen.de
www.denkmalprojekt.org
www.weltkriegsopfer.de

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