When World War II ended, Europe was littered with millions of unexploded mines. In Denmark, German prisoners of war were used ...

They were German prisoners of war. Many of them were captured in Normandy during the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944. Some had been members of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's "Afrika Korps" in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A German Luftwaffe pilot and a Mississippi Delta farmer’s wife made a run for it in January 1946, eight months after World War II ended in Europe. Their brief escape captured headlines across the ...

Cricket played behind the barbed wire in German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II was a huge morale booster for diggers, ...

Shot down over occupied Europe, an American pilot survived capture, interrogation, and months behind barbed wire. As the front lines closed in and guards thinned out, he realized this might be his ...