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The papers outlined the day-to-day operations involving Nazi and Italian Fascist prisoners of war held during World War II at ...
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.
We've answered this question before, but the information in our archives is old. Sturtevant was home to a summer camp during World War II for German prisoners of war, in 1944 and 1945. The camp ran ...
The Cap Arcona, a Nazi ship, was attacked by British Royal Air Force planes near the end of World War II. Thousands of prisoners died as the ship sank in the horrific and little-known disaster.
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 ...
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - During World War II, within the walls of the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, a Jewish prisoner secretly penned a short note and hid it inside a violin he had crafted under ...
The idea that we would ally ourselves with Hitler, and if we did ally ourselves with Hitler, it would’ve stopped the ...
In the bitter winter of 1941, British military prisoners in Nazi-occupied Germany huddled around a Monopoly set, dazzled by the contents that awaited them. They didn’t pluck Community Chest cards.