During the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of German (and Italian) PoWs were shipped to the United Kingdom and even ...

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 ...

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 ...

After writing two columns about World War II prisoners of war connected to prominent Tennesseans, Carolyn Krause decided to include this additional information about prisoner of war camps in Tennessee ...

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 ...

They are foreign enemies buried thousands of miles from home, but they are not forgotten. Less than a week after U.S. soldiers were honored during Veterans Day, dignitaries on Wednesday were to gather ...

In Utah, 8,000 German prisoners of war were held captive during World War II. In Utah, 8,000 German prisoners of war were held captive during World War II. The men worked side-by-side with thousands ...

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 ...

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 ...

An amateur researcher’s first book details the story of a German submarine that was secretly brought into Bermuda during the ...