Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Soldiers and tanks advance towards Castle Itter in Austria in May 1945. By early May 1945 the war in Europe was all but over.

FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. – Fort George G. Meade held a joint wreath-laying ceremony Sunday, November 19, 2023, alongside representatives from Germany and Italy in honor of the two Italian and 33 ...

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.

After the war, 2nd Lt. Frederick Wright told of his capture by the Germans on Oct. 14, 1944. According to his daughter, “He revealed to us that he had landed near a farmhouse and had hidden in a ...

FORT RILEY, Kan. (WIBW) - Fort Riley officials will host a ceremony to honor German and Italian prisoners of war that were held on the base during World War II. Fort Riley officials say that at 10 a.m ...

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.

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 ...