Greetings, There was a POW camp somewhere in the vicinity of Ft Hays University State Agricultural Experiment Station in Hays, Kansas. This would be a natural place with the large V German colonies at hand. Sheri Rose did some research on this camp. A few hundred miles east in Wabaunsee County in the Flint hills there was a POW camp which was associated with the building of or assisting with lake Wabaunsee, near Eskridge, Kansas. City Hall had a collection of photos on display, which showed largely military style barracks. This was close to the Paxico / Fulda German colonies. Melvina Schmidt Gack tells the story of this one prisoner working on the farm, who suddenly was intrigued by "die schoen schwartz katz" ! He wasn't familiar with the white stripe on its back, and it took some scrubbing to take out the smell. I guess it was not a particulary familiar european spiecies. Frank jacobs