Author William Geroux finds a compelling true-crime angle in a series of camp murders, as well as international intrigue in a ...

Horst Gunther was German soldier in a POW camp in South Carolina when he ... Before the war with Germany ended, it was feared that American and British prisoners who had killed collaborators ...

Professor Sönke Neitzel used secret transcripts of German prisoners of war to create a unique portrait of the mindset of soldiers during WWII. For many decades after the end of World War II (WWII), a ...

Members from Nazi Germany’s diplomatic mission to the United States quietly installed the pillar in 1935 to memorialize German prisoners of war who died in America during World War I. It stands in the ...

Germany's invasion of Poland in September 1939 led to the need for more kinds of camps. The capture of hundreds of thousands of Polish soldiers required the creation of POW camps. German occupiers ...

Germany, was supposed to be the Nazis' most escape-proof prison. Incorrigible Allied officers who had repeatedly escaped from other camps were sent to Colditz, the only German POW camp with more ...

One can only hope that freedom of speech may prevail, once and for all, and not only in Germany. We usually associate the Gestapo with mass actions, the roundup of Jews or gypsies or communists ...

The ceremony centers around Volkstrauertag, which is Germany's national day of mourning. There are dozens of German POW gravesites at Fort Custer, because at one point, the site had thousands of ...