Did you know Abe Lincoln gave an impromptu speech on a front porch at Ridge and Church in Evanston? How about the Underground ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — In the final days of World War II, the Grand Rapids Press published an editorial on the nation’s POW camps and how the American military’s decision to treat its prisoners ...

During the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of German (and Italian) PoWs were shipped to the United Kingdom and even ...

DUMFRIES, Scotland (Reuters) - When Heinz Roestel was separated from his younger sister Edith aged six, he little thought it would be nearly 80 years before he saw her again. Nor did the German ...

PAINTINGS DONE BY GERMAN POWS. WAS THE LEGACY AND STORIES THEY CARRY WILL CONTINUE TO ENRICH AND EDUCATE GENERATIONS FOR YEARS TO COME. THIS IS A SCENE WE BELIEVE, FROM THE ALPS. THE FOUR PAINTINGS ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Small-town schoolteacher Reta Schwisow was 21, married for three months, when she got the news she was dreading: Her husband was missing in action. It was Aug. 10, 1944. Two weeks ...

Editor's note: We Are Aiken County is a series of articles that will run through March 16. It celebrates people, places and events that shaped Aiken County. On a plot of ground across from Aiken High ...

Editor’s note: This is the final story of a five-part series on the history of World War II POW camps in Michigan. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 are available to read on woodtv.com. GRAND RAPIDS, ...

When World War II ended, Europe was littered with millions of unexploded mines. In Denmark, German prisoners of war were used ...

OYSTER, Va. (WAVY) — The stillness of rural Virginia only adds to the scenery that is life on the Eastern Shore. But this land now covered in yellow Rapeseed hides ghosts from the battlefields of the ...

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 ...

CAMP SWIFT, Texas — A largely rural area, Bastrop and Elgin were known for their cotton farms and peanut crops when World War II began in 1941. Virtually overnight, Bastrop County became one of the ...