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Fort Hunt GIs Sent WWII POWs Care Packages
All Things Considered reports [9-minute audio, with a photo tour] on a secret interrogation camp just outside Washington, D.C.:
Soldiers allowed some POWs to swim at the camp pool as a way of making them more willing to cooperate. Many GIs at Fort Hunt were Jewish and had family members perish at SS-run concentration camps, and some have said it was difficult to watch German generals enjoying a dunk.