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Sperryville area. Local farmers met there to collect their workers and at the end of the day the prisoners were returned to this place.
In the Viewtown area, the late Russell Smith was among those who worked the prisoners. R. L. Miller near Ben Venue also used them on his farm. I spoke with William (Bill) Printz, a local landowner, who was a young teenager during these times. He remembers these days, when his father, Cletus Printz, worked German prisoners.
William Printz remembered these men to be very hard workers. He said at lunch time during those days, his father would let the prisoners rest near his porch. His father and mother would give these young men some extra food and they"greatly appreciated that. Mr. and Mrs. Printz were kind people and it did not matter to them that they were breaking an Army regulation.
Other people I interviewed, had positive things to say about the POWs. One lady said as a young girl, she looked forward to the end of the day when the Army prison truck would pass by her house. On many days she would exchange waves with one particular prisoner. Speaking to her in the presence of several others about those days, she told us that this German prisoner was tall with blonde hair and how she knew he had blue eyes from that distance, we will never know.
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