A group of POWs staged a sit-down strike at local processing plants. One POW, Heinz Golze, escaped from camps five times. Young women working alongside POWs were said to be "very familiar" with them.

A small, wooden keepsake box adorned with carvings and the inscription, “Gefangenschaft Amerika 1944,” was donated in late January to the Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office for inclusion in the Fort ...

When Mikhail Devyataev was captured and put into a concentration camp, instead of sitting by, he conspired to actually steal ...

The influx of immigrants crossing our border under President Biden’s watch isn’t the first time the U.S. has hosted foreign nationals en masse. During WWII, 400,000 German soldiers made the U. S.

(Across lower edge:) HIER RUHEN DEUTSCHE KRIEGER IN / FREMDER ERDE DOCH UNVERGESSEN / 1914 DORCHESTER 1919 (translated as Here rest German warriors in foreign soil yet unforgotten) The information ...

Baumkuchen originated in Germany but has become a wildly popular sweet in Japan, where a prisoner of war on a small western ...

For the American World War II veterans, all in their late 90s or early 100s, the event marked what will be one of the last ...

Rhode Island played a key role in WWII through deception, POW re-education, and radio intelligence. Woonsocket's U.S. Rubber Company produced inflatable tanks and other equipment for the "Ghost Army," ...