A small, wooden keepsake box adorned with carvings and the inscription, “Gefangenschaft Amerika 1944,” was donated in late January to the Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office for inclusion in the Fort ...

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

And they couldn't wait to get back home. They were held at a World War II prisoner of war camp at the Belle Fourche Reservoir at Orman Dam. Up to 600 German soldiers were reportedly housed there in ...

Rhode Island played a key role in WWII through deception, POW re-education, and radio intelligence. Woonsocket's U.S. Rubber Company produced inflatable tanks and other equipment for the "Ghost Army," ...

Though initially recorded by British intelligence with the intention of gaining information that might be useful for the Allied war effort, the matters discussed in these conversations ultimately ...

When World War II ended, Europe was littered with millions of unexploded mines. In Denmark, German prisoners of war were used ...

Cricket played behind the barbed wire in German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II was a huge morale booster for diggers, ...

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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 ...