During the start of World War I, the United States War Department established a camp at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. This camp was used to hold Germans whose ships had been captured in American harbors. What type of camp was Fort Oglethorpe?
Fort Oglethorpe was home to 4,000 German prisoners of war and civilian detainees. During World War I and World War II it served as an induction and processing center.
