SAHUARITA, Ariz. (KGUN) — The Santa Cruz Valley Historical Society recently unveiled a new historical marker commemorating Camp Continental, a German prisoner-of-war (POW) camp that played a ...

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 ...

While America's Japanese internment camps during WWII have been discussed at length by scholars, historians, and the like, there was another kind of camp that sprang up throughout the country during ...

Members of the Nazis' vaunted Afrika Korps surrendered in 1943. Three hundred such prisoners of war were held at a camp at White Rock Lake in Dallas, one of more than 500 work camps scattered across ...

Elaine Nelson was in high school when German prisoners of war came to work in her hometown of Galesville. What she remembers most now is that she didn’t fear them. “I don’t remember ever feeling ...

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 ...

Ernest Gueymard spent Dec. 15, 1943, at Prisoner-of-War Sub-Camp No. 7 in Port Allen for a feature story for the State-Times, The Advocate's then-afternoon sister newspaper. "The swish-swish of the ...