Crump: Top Nazi POWs Held In Idaho

Five miles west of Paul, there are still some traces left of Camp Rupert, a World War II German prisoner of war camp that held up to 3,300 POWs and administrated a network of satellite camps stretching from Sidney, Mont., to Wilder. But not just any prisoners of war wound up at Rupert. According to Tomas Jaehn, curator of the Chavez Library at the Palace of Governors historical museum in Santa Fe, N.M., the 300-acre Minidoka County compound was home to captured members of elite SS divisions/ Steve Crump , Twin Falls Times-News. More here .

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