GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — During World War II, life was markedly different for American prisoners of war compared to their counterparts who were housed in the U.S. The American military made a ...

Editor’s note: This is the second part of a five-part series on the history of World War II POW camps in Michigan. Part 1 is available to read here. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — During World War II, ...

Elbert Wayne Scrivner was born near Russellville on June 30, 1917, and came up in an enterprising family that survived the Great Depression through thrift and learning to live within its limited means ...

It was one of the strangest battles of WW2 in which a most unlikely team of soldiers came together in one of the most heroic stories of the war. Early in the afternoon on May 3, 1945, a Yugoslavian ...

Last week Nazi police discovered that some of Germany’s tenderhearted Hausfrauen were “spoiling out-of-bounds” their Polish prisoners, imported to do the farm work left by Hitler’s fighting men. In ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Former West Germany's decision to buy the freedom of political prisoners in the communist East during the early years of the Cold War may have encouraged fake ransoms demands and ...