Army 1st Lt. Jack Treadwell single-handedly took out six German pillboxes and captured 18 enemy soldiers during World War II.
What’s Your KCQ? looks back at the prisoner of war camps that were scattered across the KC region during World War II.
TYCHOWO, Poland - Eighty years after his liberation from a German prisoner of war camp, 101-year-old Lester F. Schrenk ...
Tom Bodkin discussed Fort Oglethorpe’s role in WWI & WWII, highlighting its German POWs and overlooked African American ...
In March 1944, 76 officers broke out of a German prisoner-of-war camp. In 1977, a key member of the escape team talked to the BBC about the mission, and the Hollywood film it inspired.
The story of German POWs in America speaks highly ... “Given America’s scant experience with POWs in World War I,” Mr. Geroux writes, “the U.S. government had no blueprint for handling ...
Professor Sönke Neitzel used secret transcripts of German prisoners of war to create a unique portrait of the mindset of soldiers during WWII. For many decades after the end of World War II (WWII), a ...
Members from Nazi Germany’s diplomatic mission to the United States quietly installed the pillar in 1935 to memorialize German prisoners of war who died in America during World War I. It stands in the ...
Sheilds reported a study of German POWs after WWII. The investigators heard the same story time and again from the soldiers. They were told by their fathers, uncles, anyone who had served in WWI ...
A German prisoner-of-war made this model while interned in Somerset during the Second World War. After D Day in 1944 large numbers of German prisoners arrived in Somerset. Many worked on farms ...