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hannock, Warren, Culpeper and Fauquier counties.
“The balance of the prisoners were allotted to the Department of Agriculture, and B.M. (Snippy) Miller of Washington worked for the department and he would determine the number of prisoners that each county would get,” said Lindstrom. “The county agent in Rappahannock was Lewis Turner, and he would tell Mr. Miller which farmers needed help and then Mr. Miller would see that those people got workers.”
Farm workers were paid 35 cents and hour, and factory workers were paid 40 cents an hour. The money was collected by the government and put into accounts for each prisoner. The prisoners could buy toilet articles, cigarettes and a limited amount of candy bars at the camp exchange that would be charged against their accounts and deducted from their earnings. When the prisoners were shipped back to Germany, they would receive vouchers indicating how much money they had earned.
“There were 20 U.S. soldiers allotted to the camp, and that included office workers, cooks and officers,” Lindstrom said. “The guard towers also had to be manned 24 hours a day, so we didn’t have enough men to send out as guards with each work detail.”
Each farmer and factory owner or foreman would sign for the prisoners when they were picked up in the morning, and the employers were responsible for the men during the day until they were checked back into camp in the evenings. Two hundred of the prisoners were released to go to their jobs on the depot grounds every morning and were depended on to return at the end of the day.
“We never had any problems with the men coming back,” Lindstrom said. Although there were five SS prisoners at the camp, most of the prisoners were captured late in the war and were
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