I once talked to an older German who was a POW in America.
He said “I loved it! All I did was farm potatoes in Idaho. I didn’t want to leave.”
I have read more than a couple of accounts of that- German POWs that got ‘farmed out’ to farms as labor, being as happy as they could be and wanting to emigrate as soon as they legally could.
I knew a guy in South Alabama who had a bunch of German POWs work on his farm. He told me some interesting stories about them.
One thing is he said he gave them each a pack of cigareetes and a coca cola. They would get Red Cross packages from Germany. He said the first thing they would do is take out the ersatz cigarettes and throw them away.
He exchanged Christmas cards with several of them until he or they died.