In the fall semester of 1944 at Northwestern State College in Alva, Oklahoma, an 18-year-old coed named Phyllis Stout was surprised to see long lines of German prisoners of war marching past Shockley Hall (now Vinson Hall) on the east side of the NWOSU campus. The POWs, composed of captured Afrika Corps soldiers, had been off-loaded from railroad cars on the north side of Alva. From the railroad, they were being moved on foot down Seventh Street, turning east on Highway 64 to the junction of U.S. Highway 281, then south to the POW camp a few blocks southwest of the city. So just about everyone...