![]() ![]() Mostly in the South, Southwest and California. The prisoners were moved into a system of POW camps, ![]() POWs soon made the long voyage across the Atlantic to America. In 1942, the British asked the United States to help care for some of But they didn’t have the room or money to Replacement farm workers: prisoners of war.Įngland had been capturing German soldiers since as early as 1941. Shortage was especially severe for the hand-labor-intensive Ventura County fruit Now in uniform, yet the agricultural industry was expected to produce more food Over 20 percent of the pre-war work force was RanchesĪnd farms were feeding troops around the world.Ībout 15 million Americans had been called into military service. Saticoy was home to a farm labor camp for about a year from MayĪgricultural industry was vital to meeting the wartime demand for food. Mostly from Germany and Italy, who were kept in 511 POW camps in the Unitedįarm laborers. Nazi-held positions near Marseille, France in 1944. Holdt was captured by American forces invading What was a German soldier doing in Saticoy in 1945? Stools and peered over a fence in Saticoy to watch high school boys playing aįootball, not the soccer that the 20-year-old Luftwaffe radar operator knew. Ortwin Holdt and his fellow workers stood on ![]()
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