Porter, BradyAboutMr. Porter's recollections of German and Italian prisoners of war camp in Hatch, New Mexico, during World War II.
Abstract
Tape 1, Side A
Mr. Porter tells of the prisoners of war who were housed in a camp across the street from the high school. The only problem he recalls is one morning when the Italian prisoners did not want to work. After the guards fixed their bayonets, the prisoners went to work without violence. Consultant thinks that most prisoners were "good people." Some of the POWs corresponded with people in the Hatch area after the war. Consultant states that there was no local labor during World War II so the prisoners picked and weeded cotton. They worked almost year around. |
