Prisoners of War brought to America left their mark on the communities they inhabited at the time. From working in local factories to interacting with curious locals, it’s a part of history now almost ...

During World War II, the United States set up hundreds of prisoner of war camps in the U.S., including nearly 40 in Wisconsin. But it wasn't till nearly the end of the war that POWs were sent to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Family members who own an old brick chimney on Colony Drive in West Ashley — the most visible remnant of a German prisoner camp — plan to tear it down soon. A representative of the family, who asked ...

Just five weeks after he took power of Germany in 1933, Adolf Hitler established the first of his concentration camps where prisoners were starved, beaten, forced to work and murdered. Some were used ...

Elaine Nelson was in high school when German prisoners of war came to work in her hometown of Galesville. What she remembers most now is that she didn’t fear them. “I don’t remember ever feeling ...

During the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of German (and Italian) PoWs were shipped to the United Kingdom and even the United States to be detained and await their trial. In March 1945, one ...