The traveling exhibit uses 10 narrative panels and films to tell the story of the roughly 372,000 German POWs held in U.S Army-operated camps across the United States who were sent out to harvest or process crops, build roads and waterways, fell trees, roof barns, erect silos, work in light non-military industry, lay city sewers and construct tract housing, wash U.S. Army laundry and do other practical wartime tasks.