Camp Indianola Nebraska WW2 German POW Prison Wooden Framed Carving Art

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this is a unique item the wooden back board is 9" by 9 1/2" painted to look like sky carved in the front is a German Village and Forest framed in a hand made 1 3/4" deep frame- in ink on the back is a note in german (very faint hard to read) under the note is a translation typed on a paper "In memory of our time and war prison and to express thanks for the many courtesies. In friendship from your Ervin Forschner- Indianola, March, 1945"
below is information about this WWII German POW Camp where this was made in 1945
Camp Indianola has been nominated to the national registry because of its historic function during World War II, operating between 1943 and 1946 as a "branch" and "base" prisoner-of-war camp. It housed German prisoners hired out to provide labor for area farmers, and in 1944, to also house pro-Nazi non-commissioned German officers. It could hold, at any one time, up to 3,000 prisoners. Prisoners had been captured in Italy, North Africa and mainland Europe and transferred to U.S. prisoner camps by ship and rail.
Indianola's camp, as all new-build POW camps (not those placed on already existing military bases) at that time, were built to a standard Army Corps of Engineers design. The Corps preferred basically isolated areas, but only two to three miles from railroad service to facilitate deliveries of prisoners and supplies, and within a short driving distance of a town of about 5,000 to sustain the military and civilian personnel needed to operate the camp.
The Indianola camp had 189 frame and masonry buildings providing prisoner barracks, a chapel, a hospital complex and nurses' quarters, a fire station, ammunition storage building, U.S. officer and personnel administration buildings, carpentry/plumbing/sheet metal workshops, eight guard towers, warehouses, storage buildings, a canteen, a barber shop, power and heat structures, a guard house and a water tower topped with redwood water tank.