During the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of German (and Italian) PoWs were shipped to the United Kingdom and even ...

Minnesota played an important role during World War II. In the summers of 1944 and 1945, a group of about 60 German prisoners of war were brought to a camp at the Wright County Fairgrounds to help ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Small-town schoolteacher Reta Schwisow was 21, married for three months, when she got the news she was dreading: Her husband was missing in action. It was Aug. 10, 1944. Two weeks ...

In January 1945, in a German POW camp, a U.S. soldier named Roddie Edmonds defied the threat of death to protect the Jewish troops under his command. Seventy years later, he's being recognized for his ...

At the beginning of 1945, the Soviet Red Army was massing more than 2 million men and 4,500 tanks in Poland for the offensive that would take them to the steps of the Reichstag in Berlin, the seat of ...

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 ...

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