Eventually, the camp held over 6,000 prisoners, among the largest German POW camps in the United ... what is said to be the largest collection of WWII POW memorabilia in the United States.

During World War II, hundreds of German and Italian prisoners of war were held in camps throughout the Red River Valley, Kenneth Dawes, a retired UND professor, told a group of more than 100 who ...

While many Acadiana men were in Europe fighting Nazi Germany in WWII, more than 2,000 German prisoners of war were in Acadiana harvesting sugar cane and rice in their absence. During WWII ...

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.

Editor’s note: This is the second part of a five-part series on the history of World War II POW camps in Michigan ... Stateside, German and Italian POWs had a shockingly different experience.

After the policy forbidding German Jews from serving in the U.S. military was changed during World War II, Pins joined the ... of the Pentagon -- where German POWs were interrogated to glean ...

Thousands of prisoners of war, German and Italian, were brought to the United States and housed for the duration of WWII. The first Germans arrived in January 1944. In all, 425,000 German ...

A World War II veteran who was a prisoner of war in Germany ... "Well, those losses didn't occur because the Luftwaffe [the German army's aviation unit] didn't show. So shortly after, by the ...

came across the artifact made by a German prisoner of war (POW) from World War II in donations to the shop. In lieu of selling it, because she knew what she had, she contacted the Fort McCoy ...

MOORHEAD — A presentation hosted by the Moorhead Public Library in November will take a closer look at the history of German prisoners of war who called Moorhead home during World War II.