Escape from Libby Prison | Episode 5 | Daring Prison Escapes
During World War II, the United States housed hundreds of thousands of enemy soldiers who had been captured as prisoners of war. Camp Papago Park, located in Phoenix, was built to hold captured German U-boat crew members, some of the most well-trained and ardent members of the German military. Authorities hoped that the harsh Arizona desert would deter any escape attempts, but they underestimated the German soldiers’ determination to return to battle. Under the watchful eyes of the American g...
Mentioned in This Episode
- Libby Prison (location)
- Confederacy (company)
- Colonel Thomas Rose (person)
- Major Andrew Hamilton (person)
- Union Army (company)
- James River (location)
- Williamsburg, Virginia (location)
- American History Tellers (company)
- Jefferson Davis (person)
- Dr. Robert P. Watson (person)
- Elizabeth Van Lew (person)
- Kavada (person)
- Major Thomas P. Turner (person)
- Escape: The Story of the Confederacy's Infamous Libby Prison and the Civil War's Largest Jailbreak (book)
- Virginia Holocaust Museum (company)
- Abolitionism (concept)
- Vicksburg (location)
- Mississippi River (location)
- Ulysses S. Grant (person)
- American Revolutionary War (concept)