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Prisoners of War
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Prisoners of War
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World War II
Post title: When German POWs Canned Corn in Grinnell
Date published: April 6, 2017
Link to blog post: https://grinnellstories.blogspot.com/2017/04/when-german-pows-canned-corn-in-grinnell.html
Drake Library Archive Digital File Name: Grinnell Stories/2017-04-06 When German POWS canned corn in Grinnell
Summary: During World War II, German prisoners of war worked at the Grinnell Canning Company, filling in for the diminished workforce. These men were imprisoned at Branch Camp No. 27 in Toledo and bussed in each day to Grinnell, but communications between these POWs and the Grinnell community are largely unrecorded.
230 Park Street, Grinnell, IA, USA
Branch Camp No. 27, Toledo, IA, USA
Coutts, Robert G.
Ellis, Larry
Ellis, Percy
Grinnell Canning Company
Kelley, George R.
Liesenbach, Wilhelm
Moyle, W. T.