Episode #6 (Jeffrey Littlejohn)

The Enemy Within Never Did Without: German and Japanese Prisoners of War at Camp Huntsville, 1942-1945.Edited by Jeffrey L. Littlejohn and Charles H. FordFrom the publisher: Between 1943 and 1945, Camp Huntsville housed roughly 4,700 German POWs and experienced tense relations between incarcerated Nazi and anti-Nazi factions. Then, during the last months of the war, the American military selected Camp Huntsville as the home of its top-secret re-education program for Japanese POWs.The irony of teaching Japanese prisoners about democracy and voting rights was not lost on African Americans in East Texas who faced disenfranchisement and racial segregation. Nevertheless, the camp did inspire some Japanese prisoners to support democratization of their home country when they returned to Japan after the war. Meanwhile, in this country, the US government sold Camp Huntsville to Sam Houston State Teachers College in 1946, and the site served as the school’s Country Campus through the mid-1950s.http://www.tamupress.com/product/Enemy-Within-Never-Did-Without,8111.aspx