A Louisiana state historic marker stands at the location of the German Prisoner-of-War Sub-Camp No. 7 in Port Allen. The white structure next to it was a water fountain used in the camp. Ernest ...

As World War II reshaped rural Iowa, German prisoners of war became an essential labor force, and, in some cases, unexpected friends and neighbors.

A well-known World War Two visitor attraction has been bought by new owners after being run by the same family for 40 years.

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.

The influx of immigrants crossing our border under President Biden’s watch isn’t the first time the U.S. has hosted foreign nationals en masse. During WWII, 400,000 German soldiers made the U. S.

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 ...

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 ...