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Historical footage of German POWs working in a US camp
This footage shows Nazi prisoners of war and their treatment at American prison camps. They are able to make wages and provide services from different jobs.
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.
Former POW Bob Doolan shared his experience of war until his death at the age of 105. Longtime Cincinnati resident Bob Doolan was a survivor of the Nazi prison camp Stalag Luft III. He is included in ...
Werner Hartenstein pulled drowning British troops from the Atlantic Ocean in September 1942. The German U-boat commander was ...
Cricket played behind the barbed wire in German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II was a huge morale booster for diggers, ...
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Cricket cartoons illustrate a match to rival the Ashes played by prisoners of war during WWII
As Australia and England clash in The Ashes cricket series, Australian War Memorial historians have uncovered two diaries ...
Here’s a collection of excerpts from the special columns of This Month in Fort McCoy history that highlighted history at then-Camp McCoy in September ...
Throughout history, wars have greatly altered nations by shifting borders and transforming the lives of countless individuals. Some of these individuals became prisoners of war, enduring extremely ...
Melanie Cardone-Leathers, a librarian at Longwood Public Library in Middle Island, was conducting an inventory of historical documents in 2010 when a discolored file box containing photographs and ...
In the bitter winter of 1941, British military prisoners in Nazi-occupied Germany huddled around a Monopoly set, dazzled by the contents that awaited them. They didn’t pluck Community Chest cards.
A prisoner of war camp from the Napoleonic era located in Cambridgeshire has been acquired by a trust to preserve it as a site of historical significance. Nene Park Trust has purchased Norman Cross, ...
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