"cut
the alfalfa for the third time this year last Thursday and put it in the north
barn on Friday, to help put it in the barn I got three German prisoner's from
El Dorado, they have a camp of about 80 prisoners in it you can get them for
forty five cents an hour for eight hours and you are allowed 50¢ per prisoner
for going after them and taking them back you have to have them back in camp by
7 oclock, they were good workers, one could talk pretty good English, so we got
along pretty good. They were captured in
Africa last Sept. I ask one of them if
he would rather be in Africa or in this country, he said in Africa, in Africa
we are free men, in this country we a prisoners, he said. I went after them and
took them back, there was no guard with them."
-- Letter from my grandfather, Bloomington,
Kans., to my father, Notre Dame, Ind., Sunday, August 6, 1944.
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