AUGUSTA, Mich. — A special ceremony was held at Fort Custer in Augusta to honor the German-American community in Michigan, as well as around the world. The ceremony centers around Volkstrauertag, ...
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 ...
A Charleston man’s father was a Jewish POW in Germany during WWII after his plane was shot down. A German documentary maker ...
Ilse Koch was a German war criminal who was accused of crafting household items from human remains during the Holocaust. Here ...
Editor’s note: This is the second part of a five-part series on the history of World War II POW camps in Michigan. Part 1 is available to read here. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — During World War II, ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — In the final days of World War II, the Grand Rapids Press published an editorial on the nation’s POW camps and how the American military’s decision to treat its prisoners ...
FORT BENNING, Ga. (AP) - They are foreign enemies buried thousands of miles from home, but they are not forgotten. Less than a week after U.S. soldiers were honored during Veterans Day, dignitaries on ...
TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - As the unprecedented D-Day invasion in France got underway in June 1944, German prisoners of war were arriving in Texas by the thousands. According to the Texas Historical ...
With the U.S. in two (or three?) wars right now and with the debate over enemy combatants always in the news, it might be interesting to recollect an oft-forgotten fact: Once upon another desperate ...
A German prisoner of war assists with the harvest, August 1945 - James Jarche/Popperfoto via Getty Images At the end of the Second World War, Britain stood victorious. In almost every other respect, ...
Editor’s note: This is the third part of a five-part series on the history of World War II POW camps in Michigan. Part 1 is available here. Part 2 is here. A new story will be published every Sunday.
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