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.

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 ...

MEDINA — The first group of German prisoners of war to arrive in Western New York during World War II was sent to Medina. They were among some 425,000 Axis POWs were were imprisoned throughout the ...

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 ...

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, ...

CAMP SWIFT, Texas — A largely rural area, Bastrop and Elgin were known for their cotton farms and peanut crops when World War II began in 1941. Virtually overnight, Bastrop County became one of the ...

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 ...

AUGUSTA, Mich. — A special ceremony was held at Fort Custer in Augusta to honor the German-American community in Michigan, as well as around the world. The ceremony centers around Volkstrauertag, ...

SAHUARITA, Ariz. (KGUN) — The Santa Cruz Valley Historical Society recently unveiled a new historical marker commemorating Camp Continental, a German prisoner-of-war (POW) camp that played a ...