The prisoners of Sub-Camp No. 7 helped with the local sugar cane fields and interacted with community members. Some even ...

Between 1943 and 1946, more than 425,000 German prisoners of war lived and worked across the United States. They arrived ...

An army veteran who spent five years in a German prison camp during World War Two has been laid to rest. Eric Reeves, from ...

A group of POWs staged a sit-down strike at local processing plants. One POW, Heinz Golze, escaped from camps five times. Young women working alongside POWs were said to be "very familiar" with them.

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 ...

Throughout history, prisoners of war have faced some of the harshest conditions imaginable. These men endured starvation, isolation, brutal treatment, and the constant knowledge that they could die ...

One-hundred and thirty-seven German prisoners of war will be located in Reedsburg to help with the canning of peas in this region,” announced an article in the June 28, 1945, issue of the Times-Press.

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 ...