As World War II reshaped rural Iowa, German prisoners of war became an essential labor force, and, in some cases, unexpected ...
In 1943, hundreds of thousands of German prisoners of war were sent to the United States after the collapse of the Afrika Korps. What they witnessed—industrial scale, agricultural abundance, and ...
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 ...
Two World War II barracks that were used as part of a POW camp in east Phoenix are being relocated this week to a new ...
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 ...
Despite being a former prisoner of war, Tulsan Bob Thompson likes to remind people that others in World War II had it worse. Including Thompson. "One guy made a remark about how we lived in the prison ...
The number of POWs across the state increased dramatically, from 800 in 1943 to 5,800 in 1945, said Dietz, a published historian who is working on a book about World War II. In January 1945, there ...