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GREENSBORO- Inside an old school bus that now operates as a mobile World War II history museum is a piece of hidden history.

"The story of the German prisoners being held in the United States is not in our textbooks and it's not in our history books," said Irving Kellman with Traces World War II Museum.

The bus tours the country telling the story of the hundreds of prisoner of war camps that were set up throughout the United States.

Wednesday it made a stop at Guilford College.

"There were 380,000 of them, 50,000 Italian soldiers captured and a little over 5,000 Japanese soldiers captured and we held them in 660 camps all over the United States. Eighteen camps here in North Carolina and there was a camp here in Greensboro," Kellman explained.

The mobile museum is operated by Traces Center for History and Culture out of Minnesota. Inside the bus people can watch a History Channel documentary on United States POW camps and see some of the items the prisoners used including an old fashioned shaving brush along with coffee and tobacco tins.

Kellman said even though the subject is left out of some history books it's an important part of our past.

"It's important to know we treated the POWs very well. We treated them with kindness, courtesy, respect and dignity. And it's something to be proud of. It's a story that people should know about that in the middle of a sea of madness, that was World War II, there was an island of humanity," he added.

The World War II POW Mobile Museum will be at Guilford College through Thursday September 9.