Earlier in this thread there wss a passing discussion of German POWs in Canada and that they did not return home immediately.

I used to go with a former POW. He was captured in 1943 at the age of 19 in a French vineyard by an American tank corps.

He was brought to the US for the duration, first in North Carolina and then in Alabama.

He said that during FDR's tenure the prisoners ate well, even chocolate cake, which, given how starved they were in France, gave him a much needed 30 pounds. After FDR died, it was a different story- spartan fare, plenty of it but spartan.

When the war ended the POWs were not allowed to return home because Germany wasn't able to feed even itself. The POWs were given a choice of where they wanted to go. My friend chose England which is where he remained, helping with crops, until 1948.