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POWs would set up an army-style branch camp to plant and harvest a crop, or to simply harvest the crop.[1] They would be transported from camp to the field in a truck.[1] Approximately 15 prisoners were in a truck with one guard.[1] The POWs, requested by a farmer, would be transported by the farmer to his field.[1] The farmer and the War Labor Board assigned a quota to the POWs.[1] German-language information was provided to instruct the prisoners how to accomplish the task.[1] These ranged from leaflets to a German-language film produced by the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company.[1] Farmers were expected to guard the POWs.[1] This led to complaints, such as from Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, complaining that the farmer couldn't get his other work done.[1] It was administered by Fort Douglas, Utah, and was a disciplinary camp German and Italian forces with disciplinary issues such as prisoners who had attempted sit-down strikes and recaptured escapees.[1] By December 1945, it contained hundreds of the Waffen SS.[1] An estimated 15,000 POWs were attached to Camp Rupert.[1] After the end of World War II in Europe in May 1945, work assignments became heavier, and logistical challenges meant that food rations were meager.[1] As images and reports from the Nazi concentration camps made it to the public, camp staff were less tolerant towards their POWs.[1] Threats were made towards prisoners who failed to complete their assigned quotas, and non-labor activities were sharply limited.[1] At some time, a branch camp in Wyoming went on strike due to poor transportation to fields and leaky barracks roofs.[1] And in the summer of 1945, 297 POWs went on strike for harsh work conditions.[1] Three prisoners hit an American guard, and prisoners reported that an American sergeant was striking and kicking prisoners.[1] In the peak of October 1945, Camp Rupert was responsible for 15,047 prisoners.[1] In part due to labor shortages in the United States, many POWs did not return to Europe until after the fall 1946 harvest.[1] References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 {{cite journal|last=Jaehn|first=Tomas|date=August 2000|title=Unlikely Harvesters: German Prisoners of War as Agricultural Workers in the Northwest|journal=Montana: The Magazine of Western History|publisher=Montana Historical Society|volume=50|issue=3|pages=46–57|jstor=4520253}} External links
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