“Archival research revealed that the site likely contains unknown and unmarked graves of (prisoners of war) from various nationalities, including Polish and Italian soldiers, as well as of civilians ...

Follow the extraordinary journey of German and Italian POWs held in Minnesota during WWI. Held in Minnesota: Untold WWII POW Stories is a Pioneer PBS documentary film about the forgotten history ...

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.

With the end of World War Two, new problems emerged like what to do about the tens of millions of land and sea mines left over from the conflict? Voter Outrage in California Sparks Political Shift ...

Author Steve Hoza, who has extensively researched Arizona’s WWII POW camps, spoke at Joyner-Green Valley Library before the unveiling. His work includes interviews with former German prisoners ...

Why were there POW camps in the United States during World War II? Concerned that the flood of German and Japanese POWs would pose a security risk if the prisoners were kept too close to the ...

Floeter was a German POW who moved back to the United States after World War II. (Courtesy Fort Custer Historical Society) In his obituary, the writers highlighted how he was recruited to play ...

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.

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 point of following the Geneva ...

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 ...

German prisoners of war were arriving in Texas by the thousands. According to the Texas Historical Commission, more than 50 thousand German soldiers were held at nearly 70 prisoner of war internment ...

Mike Holvick moved to the small Northampton County town of Oyster two-and-half years ago to a house built on what was once Camp Ettinger, which held German prisoners ... of 23 World War II prison ...