Accompanied by the Fort Knox Garrison command team, two German liaison officers visited the Fort Knox Post Cemetery in ...
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 ...
November 15, 1943 - In November, 1943 construction was completed on 70 buildings and seven miles of roads at a Prisoner of War internment camp near Holdrege.
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.