Camp Wells Tannery | WW2 POW Camp in Pennsylvania

A short history and explore of Camp Wells Tannery, a World War II Prisoner of War Camp in the Pennsylvania Buchanan State Forest
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[@MoonwolfeConsulting]

What an incredible sight this camp must have been in its heyday. Thanks

[@ODDySEEy]

Only sad part about the idea of what it looked like in its heyday is that all of that part of PA would have been absolutely BARREN (the CCC's main job was the replanting of trees).

[@LUVEMDPOWER]

Scott - I never cease to be impressed with your video tours through history. Keep up the good work!

[@ODDySEEy]

Thanks Luke!

[@dicksanormus3642]

Thanks !! Another good one …

[@ODDySEEy]

If you did not see it, there is another POW camp video called "Michaux". ;)

[@steelyankee]

Thank you Patriot 🇺🇲

[@ODDySEEy]

You know it!

[@don55s]

Hello Scott. New to the channel. Have watched a few and find them very interesting. I'm hooked and I subscribed. ROCK ON!!!

[@ODDySEEy]

Cool!

[@stephaniegifford2020]

Interesting

[@ODDySEEy]

SO many secrets, So little time.

[@DDExplores]

Very cool video. ( On my bucket list, just haven't had time. lol )

[@ODDySEEy]

Do a double... Michaux and then Wells :D

[@DDExplores]

@@ODDySEEy Did Michaux a couple years ago,, but learned more stuff since then and found more buildings.. need to go back again. lol

[@brianwalter7387]

Wow scott, awesome history lesson, thanks for the adventure..

[@ODDySEEy]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@brianwalter7387]

@@ODDySEEy scott, why would we bring german POWs here?..my grandfather was a ww2 vet, and stationed in Florida at a camp to guard at pows

[@robbflynn4325]

Interesting stuff. Something sinister about having internment camps like this in the middle of Pennsylvania for POW's in a country far from the actual theater of war. Surely there was plenty of room for POW camps on the continent of Europe, where BTW there were plenty of American military. Makes no sense at all to me, then again not a lot makes sense to me right now. Keep up the good work.

[@brianwalter7387]

I'm wondering that myself, why did we bring POWs here?..my grandfather was a ww2 vet, he was a guard at a pow camp in Florida to watch the germans

[@ODDySEEy]

OK... here is my theory on this idea. When we would capture a POW, we had no idea who they were or what rank they were or why they were even in a specific area. So much so that they would switch uniforms (well, the Germans at least) which of course led to our removing rank on our uniforms when captured near the end of the war). So here we have a bunch of guys and we need to process them and see if we can find any secrets or attack plans or weaponization information. Leaving them anywhere in the EU would be a sure fire way to guarantee making a point the Germans would attack (as we did around every US/Brit POW camp in Germany). It would also leave the prisoners with a HOPE to escape. Bring them to the US, place them DEEP in from the coast and then bury them in the middle of NOWHERE would psychologically build a situation where they knew FULL WELL there was NO CHANCE of being rescued and if they escaped, they were in a more dangerous territory for survival against local Americans than they were in a "safe" POW Camp. Then we further brainwashed them by continuing to treat them, not only humanely, but as if they were on a VACATION from the entire war. Then, one by one they soften and certain ones would identify other ones of interest. Then we could head bag them and take them to another remote location and they would have no idea where they were nor how far away from any other camps, while ending up in the "secret" camps for MIS-Y processing and "gentle" interrogation. (the interrogations really were "gentle"... they were done psychologically as if playing a chess game... they did not beat them nor torture them at the "special" sites).

[@brianwalter7387]

@@ODDySEEy wow scott, that's amazing, thank you for that information, seems like same situation in Guantanamo bay, with these terrorists, I wonder if we have high risk terrorists elsewhere in our country

[@ODDySEEy]

@@brianwalter7387 LOL... leave a separate and new comment that you want a video on MIS-Y/MIS-X, and Operation Paperclip (heck, I can drown people in facts regarding what others call Conspiracies... but we gotta be careful with it because KZbin "can't handle the truth"

[@brianwalter7387]

@@ODDySEEy people cant handle the truth scott

[@eccentrichobbies9164]

So I just moved to Fulton county. Not even a month ago roughly. And I'm not far from Buchanan State Park... I have no idea that there was world war II internment camps...

[@eccentrichobbies9164]

Where I live before, there was a boys camp that was not far from me down the road. And it used to be a German POW camp during world war II...

[@rogergarman]

Great job Scott!! Keep up the Great work!!

[@ODDySEEy]

Thanks!

[@Rengis33]

Love the videos., Scott. I look forward to seeing the new one every week. I do have a suggestion . Although the piano music is beautiful and certainly adds another level of quality to your videos. There are a times I would like to hear the ambient sounds of the forest or wherever you may be. Even if it were for only 10 or 20 seconds, as maybe a quiet moment. Oh and I hope The Battle of Frankstown and the subsequent Holliday Massacre is on your list of want to do's. 👍

[@ODDySEEy]

Normally I would add the "nature" sounds in and they often are a very low background sound... but in this instance there was a LOT of CRUNCH/CRUNCH/CRUNCH/LOW DRONE OF AIRPLANE/CRUNCH/CRUNCH/OTHER VISITORS YELLING AT ECHO/LOW FLYING AIRPLANE/CAR/CAR/YELLING/CRUNCH/CRUNCH...

[@Rengis33]

@@ODDySEEy I can understand that. Please take this as a complaint, because whether there's piano, ambient nature sounds or crunching with helicopters, I'll be watching brother.

[@jims146]

Could the "administrative" use of these camps also be included in the reason for the Hatch Act of 1939?

[@ODDySEEy]

To me, the whole name Menonite Civilian Public Service Camp for Conscientious Objectors is a fancy politically correct way to say Pernicious Political Activities and Dissadants Camp. ;)

[@PatriseHenkel]

This is fascinating. Not just the camp story, but how you interweave that tale and our industrial/environmental history. Did many German POWs stay here after the war? I guess we’d want to ship them back. I really appreciate how deep you burrow into these stories. More please!

[@ODDySEEy]

We do know, from other POW Camps in PA, MANY of the Germans stayed here and became citizens.

[@brianh1161]

New Topics: Egg Hill Church and Swamp Church in Centre County

[@ODDySEEy]

I have Egg Hill Church on my list :) I am trying to find a direct link to the murders before hitting the site.

[@brianh1161]

@@ODDySEEy Awesome!! Really enjoy your videos, your zeal for the ODD things of rural PA speaks to me.

[@brianh1161]

@@ODDySEEy Yeah never knew if the legend was true, but makes it a fun place to check out this time of year.

[@stephaniegifford2020]

Do you know any of the names of the POW’S.

[@ODDySEEy]

Any and all records related to POW actions within the United States can be found at the NARA AAD government site... which WILL track you and WILL log your activities at the site. It has been running like garbage since January (I wonder why

[@Rayzor66]

Very interesting, so they brought pows from Europe over here to USA soil?? And i do believe that 46 is way worse than 15 lol. I love the piano music that's in all your videos. Who is that playing

[@ODDySEEy]

Most German and Japanese POWs came to 'Merica for processing. And if you re watch how I said it... I never alluded to 46 being the contender... maybe I meant 45... maybe I was talking about 37 or the clowns who were 14th and 17th. But being that you brought it up... I do not disagree. ;) Oh... and the music is by Aakash Gandhi and Wayne Jones, both in the Creative Commons section of KZbin (you can search for them by name... great music)

[@Rayzor66]

@@ODDySEEy yes the music is very relaxing, my daughter plays piano, and I want her to learn to play that song. Love it

[@thepawanderer]

how do you get to this place i would love to see it

[@ODDySEEy]

Google the title. ;)

[@terryyocumiii9645]

Just think about it, in 80 years people will be visiting the the ruins of the internment camps that some of us are bound to end up in soon.

[@ODDySEEy]

Every time I look at a map of my area, I think about how easy it would be for someone to segregate and quickly intern camp each little town and then transport so many with the train going through the middle and drop them off a larger housing complexes.

[@terryyocumiii9645]

@@ODDySEEy kinda like camps, camps used to concentrate certain people?

[@ODDySEEy]

@@terryyocumiii9645 yup... take a top down look of a place like Mount Union PA or York PA... you could EASILY bus people in and train people in and then shut down all major access... nobody would be able to escape.

[@steelyankee]

This is why we NEVER give up our guns.. We would already be there with the current administration. That's the only thing that keeps them thinking. Tyrannical government will not be tolerated by true Patriots..🇺🇲