I remember walking around the camps with my father. I have talked about and explored most of the camps in Louisiana. I do remember one thing, The Structure was taken down in Thibodaux was WWI army tents. My father who served in the CCC camps, the forerunner of the German camps, told me that the members of the camps were able to attend church; they were not always behind fences and bars, they were able to do stuff around. The Germans were well behaved in the camps and were rewarded. The mass of them did not want to escape. If they did escape they were going back to Germany in their army. According to CJ Chris about many of them were from the African Corpse and from abandoning of the U-Boats. They were also not grunts; they were elite groups. The Americans trusted them in the camps. I have pictures if I remember and my memory is not the best anymore. When my father was brought back in May of 1945 in New Jersey he was brought to a camp and then transferred to the camp in Thibodaux. My mother pulled me and my siblings aside and she told us, ‘You are to never talk to your father about being a POW ever.’ He just spoke about the one in Raceland. I do remember the train that would run from the Matthew’s Camp and the Thibodaux camp and that is also how they transferred them to camps. That is also the track that the prisoners would work at just like they were able to go fishing in the bayou. The pictures I also remember showed that they had a Soccer team that would play each other, they were teamed up in different barracks and they would crown the team of the camp. The prisoners were treated well. The Germans knew they were treated far better than the Americans were treated in Germany. They were called by Rank Name and Security Number. At my fathers camp he was ranked luft stalag and luft meaning air. I remember if the prisoners were catholic they were able to go to Church and also the officers would let priests come in and talk to the prisoners. The prisoners would yell at the civilians while they were walking the streets. There is one camp in Monroe where they still have some buildings that are preserved to go back and see it.