During World War II, thousands of women served in the Soviet Red Army as snipers, medics, pilots, and frontline soldiers. When some of these women were captured by German forces, they often faced ...

This story is a companion to a piece about Iowa's prisoner of war camps. Read about Camp Algona, whose POWs helped on local farms here. In early 1945, as World War II ground toward its final months, ...

November 15, 1943 - In November, 1943 construction was completed on 70 buildings and 7 miles of roads at a Prisoner of War internment camp near Holdrege. The camp was initiated by the Holdrege ...

In the late Middle Ages, Christian theologians and jurists began to advance more humane views regarding the treatment of captured enemy combatants. But this still did not give rise to anything ...