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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maurice Bonemeyer, Dennis Medenwaldt and Vern Huber knew the risks of war. They had seen their comrades killed and wounded, Bonemeyer and Medenwaldt in World War II and Huber in Korea. But none of ...

Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Publisher's Note; Introduction; List of Abbreviations; Part I ...

The W. J. Kennedy Foundation seeks WWII-era documents and memories of Featherstone Park Camp 18, Northumberland, for a European POW history project.

Did you know Abe Lincoln gave an impromptu speech on a front porch at Ridge and Church in Evanston? How about the Underground Railroad coursing through the North Shore to a safe house? And then ...

POW artifacts will also be on display. The keynote speaker will be Arnold Krammer of Texas A&M University, a leading scholar and author on World War II POW camps throughout the United States. Krammer ...