During the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of German (and Italian) PoWs were shipped to the United Kingdom and even ...

During World War II, hundreds of German and Italian prisoners of war were held in camps throughout the Red River Valley, Kenneth Dawes, a retired UND professor, told a group of more than 100 who ...

Minnesota played an important role during World War II. In the summers of 1944 and 1945, a group of about 60 German prisoners of war were brought to a camp at the Wright County Fairgrounds to help ...

After writing two columns about World War II prisoners of war connected to prominent Tennesseans, Carolyn Krause decided to include this additional information about prisoner of war camps in Tennessee ...

Northern Minnesota is enjoying a tourism boom like never before this year. In Duluth, tourism tax revenue is up 9.4 percent over the same period last year. Winona and the Rochester A’s won their ...

At a time when their countries were at war, German prisoners of war and their supervisor at Reading Army Airfield forged a relationship that lasted well beyond the end of World War II in 1945. From ...

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 Wednesday were to gather ...

One of the ironies of the Minnesota home front during World War II is that while so many local men were in Europe fighting Nazi Germany, German prisoners of war held here were put to work in the state ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Small-town schoolteacher Reta Schwisow was 21, married for three months, when she got the news she was dreading: Her husband was missing in action. It was Aug. 10, 1944. Two weeks ...

A Nativity scene created by German prisoners of war during World War II continues to attract thousands of visitors to north-central Iowa every December. The Nativity’s 60-plus, half-life-size figures ...

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 ...