Davos Internment Camp (Camp Davos Platz)
Details:
In the woods along a walkway
The memorial includes a stainless steel arcing monument about 8 feet tall and a stainless steel inscribed plaque.
From the Swiss Internees Association Website:
After Camp Moloney in Adelboden (See this website Camp Adelboden) became too crowded, the Swiss sent American officers to Davos starting on June 24, 1944. Davos, a ski town in the eastern region of Switzerland, sets in a valley with one road and a railroad passing through. Davos has four sections, Davos-Platz being the section where American internees were lodged. It is interesting to note the American internees were lodged just down the street from the German embassy. Inevitably, on the 4th of July the Americans shot fireworks at the German embassy, and later several American internees stole the large swastika from the building.
Note: The Swiss Internees Association states there were 1,517 Internees held in Switzerland. Also, all the 62 dead have been reinterred in US cemeteries in Europe or in the US.
Special thanks for the B-17 Museum in Utzenstorf, Switzerland for the photos of this memorial and for information concerning this site.
For more on the B-17 Museum Utzenstorf, see the museum website at: https://www.b17museum.ch
Monument Text:
The text is written in English and in German. The English reads:
IN MEMORY
Of the 1561 American Air Force members
Interned in Switzerland during he second world war
Especially the 62 crew members who did not survive
Their last mission and are buried in Switzerland.
We are eternally grateful to the town of Davos for the warm hospitality
to and friendly treatment to the 600 officers
interned there from June 1944 to May 1945.
Presented by Dan Boone, one of the internees, and his wife Sue Ann (of Florida).
12 August 1998