Grunewald significantly enhances understandings of the fate of Germans captured by the Soviet Union during World War II ... many former prisoners filled leadership roles in East Germany after the ...

During World War II, many Allied pilots faced capture and imprisonment after ... daring prisoner of war took matters into his own hands—stealing the camp commander’s personal German bomber ...

After the policy forbidding German Jews from serving in the U.S. military was changed during World War II, Pins joined ... more than 3,400 prisoners (including 15 Nazi generals) were processed ...

Exchanging prisoners was common by the time France and Great Britain fought the Seven Years War in the mid-1700s. Only after the Enlightenment ... But in World War II, the combatants committed ...

Following a fierce tank battle, a WW II tanker managed to bamboozle both Italian and German troops ... into a group of 50 prisoners and forced to march 40 miles. But after two days, Varner and ...

Eight decades later, their descendants are learning the truth: The three crew members were pulled off an SS prisoners’ train and killed a day after the ... served in World War II, is buried.

Survivors of the Nazi's notorious Auschwitz death camp are taking center stage at the memorial service to mark 80 years since ...