Volume 8 , Issue 7

1944 - Escaped Nazis Are Caught In Kansas...

Here is another 1944 local NW newspaper article dated 5/2/1944, that Ila Wessell submitted to the OkieLegacy:

Two German prisoners of war who escaped from Camp, Alva, Oklahoma, last week were apprehended by a special officer of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad in the rail yards at Kansas City, Kansas, early Tuesday morning according to Kenneth M. Logan, agent in charge of teh Oklahoma City FBI.

Heinz Rath, 30, was arrested first and Werner Wolg (sp), 30, was taken into custody about three hours later. Both were wearing partial prisoner of war uniforms and said that they were on their way to New York, hoping to leave the country in a neutral ship, Lagan said.

The fugitives, who were officers in the German army, carried cheese and dried fruit but refused to reveal where they had obtained it. They will be returned to Alva.

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