CAPE HENLOPEN & BEYOND
HISTORY
1944 GERMAN POW'S ARRIVE
AT LEWES CAMP
Salisbury Daily Times,
Wednesday, June 14, 1944:
Lewes, June 14:
The arrival here yesterday
of the first German POW's to be used for labor in several Sussex
county factories created
less disturbance than did the blocked proposal to bring Japanese
American's labor last March.
The war prisoners are
housed in the former CCC camp a mile out of town,
practically
at Lewes' front door.
Today, curious persons began passing by the camp but there were no
demonstrations or
objections noticed. 60 of the prisoners here at the CCC camp
will work at cannery and farm jobs. Stockley Brothers cannery at
Rehoboth has been using 40 workers who come from Fort Delaware
everyday under guard at the canning house and said they are good
workers and get along well with civilians working there.
Other Sussex businesses ,
Houston White at Millsboro, Marrvel Packaging at Laurel,
Pearson Brothers at
Seaford and Rehoboth's Stokely have contracted for the prisoners
labor.
The fish processing
company’s at Lewes beach had wanted labors also but the military
said
they are too near Fort
Miles.
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