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Camp Hearne, located in Hearne, Texas, was a prisoner-of-war camp during the Second World War. Commissioned in 1942, Camp Hearne was one of the few camps that housed prisoners from all three Axis powers during the conflict. After its decommissioning and piecemeal sell-off by the United States government, the site remained abandoned for 70 years. Today, a single replica of a barracks stands on the site of the former camp, which contains a museum. The camp also served as the central prisoner-of-war (POW) postal service, "responsible for the distribution of all mail to POWs in the United States." According to Krammer, in their spare time, the German POWs "painstakingly constructed replicas of old German castles - waist high - down to the detailed turrets and moats, and a curious visitor to the old camp site can still examine a medieval little Schloss rising just above the weed tops in a corner of the empty landscape where the camp used to be." Unfortunately, the period was marred by at least one escape attempt, a suicide, and a murder of a perceived American collaborator.

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World Prisons. (2026). Camp Hearne. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/camp-hearne
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@misc{worldprisons-camp-hearne,
  author = {{World Prisons}},
  title = {Camp Hearne},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/camp-hearne},
  urldate = {2026-10-20}
}