In late October of 1944, alarms sounded as spotlights and panic spread throughout Camp Clinton, a POW camp in rural Mississippi. After hours of searching, all that remained of the escaped prisoner were the rumors of his connection to a missing $500 million fortune and the legacy of the man who became known as Der Geist, or The Ghost. By the end of World War II, the U.S. government had over 500 prisoner of war camps throughout the continental United States to house German and Italian POWs captured by the allies in Europe. In total, these camps held more than 400,000 prisoners. Following the...