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An illustration of how the prisoners were treated is found in the way the area farmers fought for better food for the men who worked for them. “According to the Geneva Convention, the prisoners had to be given the same food as our soldiers, but meat was being rationed at the time,” Lindstrom said. “We had to restrict the prisoners’ diet, so they would be given six slices of bread with a piece of fat back in between for lunch.”
The farmers did hot think that that was enough food for the workers, but there were regulations against feeding POWs any more than what was provided. The farmers got around the regulations by setting up tables under the trees with milk, sandwiches and fruit on them. “That way the farmers weren’t actually feeding the men since they were just putting the food out there,” Lindstrom said.
Officials in Baltimore found out about the food tables, however, and they issued an order to the farmers to stop feeding the men. “Finally, there was a hearing in Warrenton, and the officials asked that anyone who was feeding prisoners to stand up,” Lindstrom said. “At first no one did, and then a man stood and said that he wouldn’t work the prisoners on a starvation diet and if the army tried to keep him from having workers that he would get in touch with his senator.” At that point, all of the farmers stood and after the meeting nothing more was said about the food tables.
Lindstrom left the camp in December of 1945, and he took with him several paintings done by one of the prisoners whose last name was Maeder. “Practically all of the men were artistic in some way or other,” Lindstrom said. “They made do with
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