The Geneva Conventions required that POW camps provide a canteen for prisoners to purchase extra food, clothing, toiletries, and other necessities. The canteen officer at Huntsville even added expensive trinkets, alcohol, and candy to the canteen stock. POW labor ran the canteen. At Camp Huntsville, the POWs used the profits from canteen sales to buy luxuries from the Sears & Roebuck and Montgomery Ward catalogs. | Source: Walker County Historical Commission.Download Original File
