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.

While going through his late mother's belongings, former Auburn resident Jack Shay discovered a trove of letters, documents and memorabilia from former German prisoners of war. Growing up, Shay had ...

MOORHEAD — A presentation hosted by the Moorhead Public Library in November will take a closer look at the history of German prisoners of war who called Moorhead home during World War II. Mark Peihl ...

A German prisoner of war assists with the harvest, August 1945 - James Jarche/Popperfoto via Getty Images At the end of the Second World War, Britain stood victorious. In almost every other respect, ...

It began with one used golf club, sent to a British military pilot detained in a German POW camp during World War II. Arriving in a Red Cross parcel but with no balls to hit, Sydney Smith had to get ...

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 ...

FORT KNOX, Ky. — Two German liaison officers from Fort Moore, Georgia, visited Fort Knox’s Main Post Cemetery Nov. 29 to honor and remember 18 German prisoners of war who are buried there. At the ...

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 ...