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, ...

The prisoners of Sub-Camp No. 7 helped with the local sugar cane fields and interacted with community members. Some even ...

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 ...

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 ...

During the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of German (and Italian) PoWs were shipped to the United Kingdom and even the United States to be detained and await their trial. In March 1945, one ...

Editor’s note: This is the third part of a five-part series on the history of World War II POW camps in Michigan. Part 1 is available here. Part 2 is here. A new story will be published every Sunday.

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.

German American Heritage Center Hosts Traveling Exhibit Telling the Unknown Story of German POWs Held in Midwest Camps during WWII By the end of World War II some 425,000 German, Italian and Japanese ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Overall, then-U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George C. Marshall’s plan for European prisoners of war during World War II was a success. More than 400,000 enemy soldiers ...

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 ...