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This is regarding “Germans fondly recall POW camps in Midwest” (Page 1, Oct. 7). I worked as a 14-year-old on a farm in what is now Sauk Village. It was June 1944. I would read in the Tribune about the progress of the war and then the very next day see the German POWs manning the farm equipment on the Schaller farm located at Torrence and Sauk Trail.
In the word of today’s young, it was “awesome.”
Yes, suburban Chicago had farmer POWs too.
