A Louisiana state historic marker stands at the location of the German Prisoner-of-War Sub-Camp No. 7 in Port Allen. The white structure next to it was a water fountain used in the camp. Ernest ...

World War II saw events like the Holocaust and the bombings in Japan that are today found in countless history textbooks and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jean Shey was 12 when she first questioned her father’s judgment. He wanted to serve lunch to the Germans. Not neighbors ‒ ...

During World War II, the U.S. began amassing huge numbers of German prisoners when the Afrika Korps, the Wehrmacht’s elite desert troops, surrendered to the Allied forces at Tunisia in May 1943. As ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Army Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds will be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. Roddie Edmonds never spoke about his time in a ...

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.

Did you know Abe Lincoln gave an impromptu speech on a front porch at Ridge and Church in Evanston? How about the Underground Railroad coursing through the North Shore to a safe house? And then ...

What did it actually feel like inside the Stalingrad pocket as the Sixth Army came apart? In this rare firsthand account from ...

Not much is left of a once-thriving, tidy little encampment tucked inside a Cook County forest preserve in Des Plaines. Even memories barely exist anymore. Just tales told second or third hand at this ...

Jean Shey was 12 when she first questioned her father’s judgment. He wanted to serve lunch to the Germans. Not neighbors ‒ prisoners of war in her town of Algona. Five of them. Men captured overseas ...