POWs housed on Eastern Shore, south Hampton Roads

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POWs housed on Eastern Shore, south Hampton Roads

OYSTER, Va. (WAVY) — The stillness of rural Virginia only adds to the scenery that is life on the Eastern Shore. But this land now covered in yellow Rapeseed hides ghosts from the battlefields of the 20th century. Mike Holvick moved to the small Northampton County town of Oyster two-and-half years ago to a house built on what was once Camp Ettinger, which held German prisoners-of-war brought to Virginia beginning in the summer of 1944. "Having…