Jean Shey was 12 when she first questioned her father’s judgment. He wanted to serve lunch to the Germans. Not neighbors ‒ prisoners of war in her town of Algona. Five of them. Men captured overseas ...

The POWs were sent to Maine to serve as laborers during WWII and three of them escaped for four days. The nearest public road was 19 miles through the woods.

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.

For Maurice Bonemeyer, as it was for many young guys from the Upper Midwest, this was an unfamiliar experience: riding out rough seas aboard a troop ship on the Atlantic Ocean. In a few months, though ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This is the second part of a five-part series on the history of World War II POW camps in Michigan. Part 1 is available to read here. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — During World War II, ...

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