German PWs Escape! The Paris News, March 8, 1944

Later new reports said these prisoners turned themselves in shortly after their escape.  After this report, Ernest Koslowski, 22, escaped from Camp Maxey, Texas, May 19.  According to a report in the Paris News, he was recaptured by Texas highway patrolmen a few days later on the edge of some woods between Greggton and Gladewaler. Texas.

The Camp Maxey Prisoner of War Camp was designed to hold up to 10,000 German prisoners.  Records indicate that there were just over 7,000 held their at its peak.  Most of the early prisoners were sent over from North Africa after the combined British and American forces defeated the German Afrika Korps.  These were joined by prisoners captured in Italy and later from France.