During World War II, the U.S. began amassing huge numbers of German prisoners when the Afrika Korps, the Wehrmacht’s elite desert troops, surrendered to the Allied forces at Tunisia in May 1943. As ...

Members of the Nazis' vaunted Afrika Korps surrendered in 1943. Three hundred such prisoners of war were held at a camp at White Rock Lake in Dallas, one of more than 500 work camps scattered across ...

ANDERSONVILLE, Ga. (WALB) - As we prepare to celebrate our nation’s birthday on July 4, 2026, our station along with the rest of Gray Local Media will be marking significant dates in South Georgia ...

November 15, 1943 - In November, 1943 construction was completed on 70 buildings and seven miles of roads at a Prisoner of ...

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.

(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 ...