During the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of German (and Italian) PoWs were shipped to the United Kingdom and even ...

The Red Army surrounded the city and on May 2, the Berlin garrison surrendered. On May 8, the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht came into effect. Millions of German soldiers were taken prisoner ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — 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 ...

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 help ...

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 ...

Melanie Cardone-Leathers, a librarian at Longwood Public Library in Middle Island, was conducting an inventory of historical documents in 2010 when a discolored file box containing photographs and ...

This is the fourth part of a five-part series on the history of World War II POW camps in Michigan. Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 are available to read here. The final story will be published next Sunday.

Eighty years ago today, German artillery opened fire on an inexperienced American division that had been at the front for ...