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.

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 visited Fort Knox’s Main Post Cemetery on the morning of Nov. 24 in recognition of Volkstrauertag, or National Day of German Mourning. Lieutenant Col.

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.

Accompanied by the Fort Knox Garrison command team, two German liaison officers visited the Fort Knox Post Cemetery in ...

Members of the Nazis' vaunted Afrika Korps surrendered in 1943. Three hundred such prisoners of war were held at a camp at White Rock Lake in Dallas, one of more than 500 work camps scattered across ...

Have you ever heard of The Battle of the Little Cal in Northwest Indiana during World War II? Even those old enough to remember war-related events in the 1940s are probably clueless. The memory of ...