After the German surrender at Stalingrad, Soviet intelligence began secret interrogations of the captured soldiers. The transcripts reveal their raw, unfiltered thoughts on the battle's collapse, ...
A POW camp encroached on Bill Hall's lifestyle, but he remained self-sufficient and knew the woods better than anyone.
“The witness – a tall, 16-year-old boy with a child-like face – recounts his sad story as if he were an old man”, she noted ...
Like most other local residents, Tricia Torrez didn't know that the Sahuarita area had a German prisoner of war camp during World War II. Until a couple of years ago, that is, when she overheard her ...
Dame Sibyl Hathaway had 275 Nazi prisoners on her hands and knew exactly what she wanted to do with them. It was May 1945. Five years earlier, Germany had invaded Hathaway’s home in the British ...
A newspaper clipping about a ship that sank while Charles Atteberry, of Wilder, was being transported as a prisoner of war to Japan. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency After nearly 80 years of being ...
On 5 May 1945, a few days after Hitler’s suicide, American soldiers under command of US Army Captain John C. "Jack" Lee, Jr. teamed up with a number of Wehrmacht soldiers under German major, Josef ...
Historian Steve Hoza will give a presentation on "German Prisoners of War in Arizona" at 10 a.m. Tuesday at St. Francis in the Valley Episcopal Church, 600 S. La Cañada Drive, Green Valley. Due to ...