Lakes Region in WWII

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Originally Posted by weim2

My mother tells the story of some German coins being left at our camp in a small cove in Alton during the winter when the dwelling was vacant during WWII. Some people were living in our camp she said. There was no plowed Woodlands Road and very few camps and certainly nobody there in the winter. All they left behind was some German coins.

There was a German POW camp in Stark, NH, late in WWII. It was converted from a Civillian Conservation Camp. There was only one escapee that I'm aware of, and he was caught in NY.