The POWs were sent to Maine to serve as laborers during WWII and three of them escaped for four days. The nearest public road was 19 miles through the woods.

The influx of immigrants crossing our border under President Biden’s watch isn’t the first time the U.S. has hosted foreign nationals en masse. During WWII, 400,000 German soldiers made the U. S.

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 ...

Community members and immigrant rights advocates gathered Monday at Fountain Street Church in Grand Rapids to demand transparency and accountability. Man used stolen U-Haul to steal copper from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor's note: This story originally appeared in 2017. When Italian soldiers wanted to be caught by American forces during World War II, they would play cards. The loser of the card game had to crawl ...