Utah communities generally embraced many POWs but failed to do the same for the aforementioned groups. In Utah and throughout the United States as a whole, this resulted in German POWs and African Americans, in particular, forming close bonds, as both groups worked together in low-paying farm labor throughout that time period. After the War Following the war, many former POWs returned to America to establish their lives there, largely because of the favorable view of America their treatment in POW camps gave them. About 3,000 Germans returned to Utah due to their ties to the LDS church. References World War II prisoners of war held by the United States 1940s in Utah