Looks like a fair number of my relatives died in this camp. I just found it out.
Hans was a German Jew who'd worked as a logger in Canada in the 1930's but had gone back to Germany to try and get his family out. While there, he was picked up by the Gestapo and sent to a work camp, while his family was sent to a death camp.
He ended up in North Africa, preparing defensive positions for the Afrika Korps. He was captured by the Free French, who turned him over to the British, who turned him over to the Americans, and he spent the rest of the war in the POW camp in Alabama, where he spent most of his time working in the cotton fields.
As an interesting side note about Hans, he was responsible for the arrest of three key members of the Baden Meinhof Gang (aka the Red Army Faction). He was out picking mushrooms to help supplement his pension when he smelled woodsmoke. He knew that there weren't any camping areas around, so he crept up the hill and the trio (two males and a female) hiding out in a small hollow. Recognizing them from their wanted posters, he hurried back to his cabin and called the politzei, who responded with overwhelming force. My school class was on a field trip to the politzei station when they were brought in, so it was a memorable event for me.