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By JANE BANGLEY
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Rex Lindstrom, now a resident of Washington, Va., was a captain in the U.S. Army stationed in Rhode Island when the war with Germany ended on May 7, 1945. He applied for a discharge, but his knowledge of the German language caught the eye of a superior officer and his discharge was denied.
Instead, Lindstrom was transferred to the Aleshire Quartermaster Depot, or the Army Remount Depot, outside of Front Royal. There he became the camp commander for 700 German prisoners of war.
“People called the camp the Army Remount Depot because horses for the calvary were raised and kept there,” Lindstrom said. “The war was becoming mechanized, and there was no need for as many horses as before so the POW camp was established there in 1945.”
The prisoners worked on and maintained the camp’s 4,000 acres of land besides working at outside jobs. “About 200 POW’s worked on the camp .itself in offices or in the fields, and the remaining 500 were divided between industry and farm jobs,” Lindstrom said. The prisoners worked in Rappa
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