Minidoka County ID Archives Military Records.....Camp Rupert 
WWII P.O.W. Camp
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Camp Rupert
Camp Rupert -
  P.O.W. Camp during WW11 consisted of 300 acreas and was about 5 miles 
West 
of Paul.
   In May 1944 it housed Italian prisoners of war.
   September1944 German prisoners replaced the Italian prisoners and 
according to the record in Jan 1946 there was 3,337 German P.O.W.'s.
  Article also stated that the German soldiers were battle worn and 
exhausted. Area farmers needing laborer's gave jobs to the prisoners on 
their farms and treated them humanly.The prisoners were picked up in 
the 
mornings and returned to the camp in the evenings.



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