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 ...

A large number of soldiers from the Midwest were taken prisoner by the Germans during WWII. American imprisoned about 380,000 Germans and brought then to the Midwest to prison camps, according to ...

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 ...

WATERLOO - It was not Abu Ghraib. In fact, it was quite the opposite. Prisoners of war weren't mistreated under Eldred Harman's watch as an Army military policeman in World War II. They planted crops.

Melanie Cardone-Leathers, a librarian at Longwood Public Library in Middle Island, was conducting an inventory of historical documents in 2010 when a discolored file box containing photographs and ...

Prisoners of war found “a surprisingly pleasant experience” in Missouri during World War II. These Germans picked potatoes near Atherton and loaded them onto train boxcars. Jackson County Historical ...

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 ...

TYCHOWO, Poland - Eighty years after his liberation from a German prisoner of war camp, 101-year-old Lester F. Schrenk returned to the site of his captivity, Stalag Luft IV in Tychowo, Poland, on ...