Prisoners of War brought to America left their mark on the communities they inhabited at the time. From working in local factories to interacting with curious locals, it’s a part of history now almost ...

During World War II, the United States set up hundreds of prisoner of war camps in the U.S., including nearly 40 in Wisconsin. But it wasn't till nearly the end of the war that POWs were sent to the ...

During the summers of 1944 and 1945, the U.S. Army used a former Civilian Conservation Corps campsite in Whitewater State Park to house about 380 German prisoners of war. Whitewater was one of 34 ...

Just five weeks after he took power of Germany in 1933, Adolf Hitler established the first of his concentration camps where prisoners were starved, beaten, forced to work and murdered. Some were used ...

A Nativity scene created by German prisoners of war during World War II continues to attract thousands of visitors to north-central Iowa every December. The Nativity’s 60-plus, half-life-size figures ...

Minnesota played an important role during World War II. In the summers of 1944 and 1945, a group of about 60 German prisoners of war were brought to a camp at the Wright County Fairgrounds to help ...

Family members who own an old brick chimney on Colony Drive in West Ashley — the most visible remnant of a German prisoner camp — plan to tear it down soon. A representative of the family, who asked ...

On June 6, 1944, a Miami newspaper reporter took a ride up the south shore of Lake Okeechobee. Overnight, the long-anticipated and historic invasion of Europe had begun. Editors wanted local reaction ...