November 15, 1943 - In November, 1943 construction was completed on 70 buildings and 7 miles of roads at a Prisoner of War internment camp near Holdrege.

The camp was initiated by the Holdrege community to be a solution to the war-time farm labor shortage.

The camp housed German soldiers captured in North Africa and Italy. It did serve as a source of farm labor until 1946.

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