A soldier who risked his life to protect hundreds of Jewish-American prisoners of war during World War II will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor more than 40 years after his death. Master Sgt.

A group of POWs staged a sit-down strike at local processing plants. One POW, Heinz Golze, escaped from camps five times. Young women working alongside POWs were said to be "very familiar" with them.

In 1943, hundreds of thousands of German prisoners of war were sent to the United States after the collapse of the Afrika Korps. What they witnessed—industrial scale, agricultural abundance, and ...

A Virginia man traveled to Germany to retrace his father's harrowing WWII experience as a B-24 gunner, POW and Death March survivor.

As World War II reshaped rural Iowa, German prisoners of war became an essential labor force, and, in some cases, unexpected friends and neighbors.

Memories of becoming a prisoner of war during World War II are fresh in Joseph Cucinotta's mind on his 103rd birthday.

Though initially recorded by British intelligence with the intention of gaining information that might be useful for the Allied war effort, the matters discussed in these conversations ultimately ...

During World War II, Iowa housed over 25,000 German prisoners of war to address farm labor shortages. Initial fear and skepticism from Iowans gave way to community and trust as they worked alongside ...