Prisoner of War Escapees
Nearly 1,600 enemy prisoners escaped from American Camps. There were 47,000 guards to watch over the 360,000 German and Italian prisoners of war. Though this escape figure seems high, it should be remembered the re-capture rate was correspondingly high - no prisoner ever succeeded in gaining his freedom. Fort Reno's only escape lasted two weeks. The escapees surrendered at the El Reno train depot. An escape was futile as there was no viable way to return to Germany. One escapee did make it all the way to France before being recaptured, but he did not escape from Oklahoma. There are 59 escapees named and 33 unnamed. from the Oklahoma Camps. These names were extracted from local newspaper accounts in Oklahoma.

AMMERSBACH, Otto
ARENS, Rudolph
AULENBACNER, Heinz
BOLLNER, Herman
BOTTNER, Herman
BRAUN, Jacob
BUCHOLZ, Karl
BUSSMAN, Rudi
DAHNER, Ludwig
DIETRICH, Erhard
EHRLER, Wilhelm
EICH, Heinrich
GAUGER, Werner
GIESA, Hans
GLOCKE, Heinz
GOETZ, Gustav
GOSEMAN, Walter
HANS, Karl
HOCKE, Eric
HOIKE, Girhart
HOLM, Franz
HORNAUF, Georg
HUEHNLE, Otto
KAISER, Karl
KANICH, Otto
KIEL, Albert
KLEIN, Seigfried
KOEPPE, Willie
KUHNIKE, Guenther
LANGHAMMER, Rudolph
LEICHWEISS, August
LEMIER, Josef
LOOS, Edmund
MINOTTI, Emil
PFOHL, Albert
POLTER, Heinz
PUESCHA, Fritz
ROSENWEIG, Hans
ROTH, Heinz
SCHNIEDER, Karl
SCHROECK, Johann
SHEFFER, Anton
SHULZ, Heinz
THEISINGER, Edward
VANDERBURG, Walter
VESSER, Hans
VOGT, Ferdinand
WILMS, Eberland
WITTE, Conrad
WOLF, Werner
WOLF, Max
WULF, Erich
ZAHN, Paul
ZIGANN, Karl Hienz

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