In the quiet, early hours of July 8, 1945, a tragic and unexpected event unfolded in the small town of Salina, Utah, forever marking it as the site of the largest massacre of prisoners of war on American soil during World War II. Among the victims of this senseless act was Fritz Stockn, a 24-year-old German prisoner of war. He, along with his fellow prisoners, was housed in a camp that had been established in a former Civilian Conservation Corps facility. The prisoners, mostly from the German Af
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