During the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of German (and Italian) PoWs were shipped to the United Kingdom and even the United States to be detained and await their trial. In March 1945, one ...
The prisoners of Sub-Camp No. 7 helped with the local sugar cane fields and interacted with community members. Some even ...
DUMFRIES, Scotland (Reuters) - When Heinz Roestel was separated from his younger sister Edith aged six, he little thought it would be nearly 80 years before he saw her again. Nor did the German ...
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 ...
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‘The Fifteen’ Review: Lives in Captivity
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 ...
During World War II, the United States set up hundreds of prisoner of war camps in the U.S., including nearly 40 in Wisconsin. But it wasn't till nearly the end of the war that POWs were sent to the ...
OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Small-town schoolteacher Reta Schwisow was 21, married for three months, when she got the news she was dreading: Her husband was missing in action. It was Aug. 10, 1944. Two weeks ...
BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - Anyone looking to learn more about the history of the Brazos Valley, specifically during World War II; Roll Call: Friends of Camp Hearne will host a Ghost Walk this weekend. Camp ...
Did you know Abe Lincoln gave an impromptu speech on a front porch at Ridge and Church in Evanston? How about the Underground ...
A puzzling competition took place Saturday at the Vicksburg District Library. The Rooster's Call customers donate food during coldest days of the year Non-perishable food donations are going toward ...
Not much is left of a once-thriving, tidy little encampment tucked inside a Cook County forest preserve in Des Plaines. Even memories barely exist anymore. Just tales told second or third hand at this ...
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