Hosting the enemy: Our WWII POW camps

Curious City

WBEZ Chicago

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4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2013

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Daring escapes, unexpected romance and more true stories from German prisoners held in our area.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Curious City Founder and senior producer Jennifer Brandel.
0:04.0	And on behalf of our team here, I want to say, we missed you.
0:07.9	I know we said we were taking a podcast break, and we are.
0:10.3	But we can't help wanting to bring you some great stories you might not have caught
0:14.0	because they haven't actually been on our podcast yet.
0:17.0	So we're going to fix that right now.
0:18.8	Okay, here comes to theme music.
0:20.9	It's time to get official.
0:24.9	Welcome to WBEZ's Curious City, your place to ask questions about Chicago, the region, and its people.
0:31.7	So here's what you need to know before we jump into a history-related question that we answered with two stories.
0:38.3	In early December, 73 years ago, the United States got embroiled in World War II.
0:44.2	On December 7, 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, and we declared war with them.
0:50.3	And just a few days later, on December 11th, Japan's allies, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States.
0:57.3	It was on.
0:58.4	Reporter E.D. Rabinowitz, we'll pick things up from here.
1:01.7	History buff Bill Healy was talking with some friends after a golf game.
1:05.1	About World War II trivia.
1:08.1	And a question came up as to whether there were German POW camps in and around Chicago
1:14.2	and nobody had a direct answer if they were camps we couldn't figure out where they would
1:19.8	have been I'm curious as to whether there were German POW camps and if so where were they?
1:27.3	So he turned to WBEZ's curious city for the answer and they turned to me. there were German POW camps, and if so, where were they?
1:32.4	So he turned to WBEZ's curious city for the answer, and they turned to me, E.D. Rubinowitz.
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