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.

Veteran journalist and author William Geroux has an aptitude for selecting World War II stories that should have been written decades ago and masterfully crafting them into praiseworthy accounts. Many ...

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 ...

After the Allies’ defeat of the Afrika Corp in May 1943, “there was nowhere else to put the Germans but in America,” writes journalist Geroux (The Ghost Ships of Archangel) in this exhilarating ...

While America's Japanese internment camps during WWII have been discussed at length by scholars, historians, and the like, ...

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 ...

A German Luftwaffe pilot and a Mississippi Delta farmer’s wife made a run for it in January 1946, eight months after World War II ended in Europe. Their brief escape captured headlines across the ...

I recommend to your readers a remarkable documentary of some vintage which I recently watched on YouTube, titled something like this: “German POWs in America were shocked and amazed at what they ...

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 ...