During World War II, approximately half a million German prisoners of war were held in the United States, housed in 700 camps spread across the country, from Florida to Maine. These POWs were treated in accordance with the Geneva Conventions, often working in agriculture and other industries to alleviate domestic labor shortages. Today, evidence of these POW camps has all but vanished, and with them&nbsp;the&nbsp;harrowing knowledge of what happened beyond&nbsp;the&nbsp;battlefield. But today&rsquo;s guest, William Geroux (Jer-oh), author of &ldquo;The Fifteen: Murder, Retribution, and&nbsp;the&nbsp;Forgotten Story of Nazi POWs in America,&rdquo; not only exposes&nbsp;the&nbsp;forgotten history of these POW camps on American soil, but of&nbsp;the&nbsp;Nazi power games that dominated life within them. While German prisoners were protected by&nbsp;the&nbsp;Geneva Convention and generally treated fairly by their American captors, ardent Nazis in dozens of&nbsp;the&nbsp;camps began to punish and attack their fellow German inmates who failed to live up to Nazi ideology. What followed was a grisly series of murders in&nbsp;the&nbsp;heart of&nbsp;the&nbsp;United States.See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

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