During World War II, many Allied pilots faced capture and imprisonment after being shot down. But one daring prisoner of war took matters into his own hands—stealing the camp commander’s ...

At the time, the prisoner-of-war camp set up at Milwaukee's Mitchell Field airport in early 1945, housed about 1,000 German prisoners of war. The battery assembly plant set up at Camp Billy ...

Prisoners at those camps helped reduce the labor shortage during World War II by working at local plants. The camp held as many as 3,000 prisoners; about 10,000 of them passed through its doors ...

Helen Crumpacker and her mother-in-law cooked dinner for the German prisoners of war who had labored that day in the Crumpacker Bros. orchards near Bonsack. In POW camps in Salem, Catawba and ...

According to the Texas Historical Commission, more than 50 thousand German soldiers were held at nearly 70 prisoner of war internment camps in Texas during World War II. Many were captured in southern ...

Grunewald significantly enhances understandings of the fate of Germans captured by the Soviet Union during World War II. Her archival research demonstrates that the Soviets saw the German prisoners of ...

The WSWS is posting here both the video and text of the speech by Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Germany) National Committee member Katja Rippert to the International May Day 2025 Online Rally.

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, and communities around the world are marking this occasion ...

During World War II, hundreds of prisoner of war camps were set up in the United States. ... During the course of the war, more than 8,000 German prisoners were held at Camp Billy Mitchell.

In January 1945, the first of what was expected to be 1,000 to 1,500 German POWs were brought to what was renamed Camp Billy Mitchell. And not long after, on Jan. 13, 1945, the first prisoners ...