Pioneer Specials
Held in Minnesota: Untold WWII POW Stories
Preview: Special | 1m 41s
Follow the extraordinary journey of German and Italian POWs held in Minnesota during WWI.
Held in Minnesota: Untold WWII POW Stories is a Pioneer PBS documentary film about the forgotten history of twenty-one POW labor camps in Minnesota during WWII by way of a major POW camp in Algona, Iowa. Explore the stories of these communities coming to bumpy terms with the enemy not only on their soil but tilling it, during an extraordinary time in Minnesota’s history and the world’s.
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Pioneer Specials is a local public television program presented by Pioneer PBS
Pioneer Specials
Held in Minnesota: Untold WWII POW Stories
Preview: Special | 1m 41s
Held in Minnesota: Untold WWII POW Stories is a Pioneer PBS documentary film about the forgotten history of twenty-one POW labor camps in Minnesota during WWII by way of a major POW camp in Algona, Iowa. Explore the stories of these communities coming to bumpy terms with the enemy not only on their soil but tilling it, during an extraordinary time in Minnesota’s history and the world’s.
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Pioneer Specials is a local public television program presented by Pioneer PBS