This story is a companion to a piece about Iowa's prisoner of war camps. Read about Camp Algona, whose POWs helped on local farms here. In early 1945, as World War II ground toward its final months, ...

Throughout history, prisoners of war have faced some of the harshest conditions imaginable. These men endured starvation, isolation, brutal treatment, and the constant knowledge that they could die ...

CAMP ATTERBURY — The 36th Annual Mass and commemorative ceremony honoring the more than 3,000 Italian prisoners of war who were held at Camp Atterbury during World War II will be at Our Lady’s Chapel ...

During the lesser-known 1943 Sobibor Uprising, several hundred Jews fled into the forests of Poland, where many were tracked down and shot. Fifty-eight Sobibor inmates survived the war Meilan Solly - ...

Ernest Gueymard spent Dec. 15, 1943, at Prisoner-of-War Sub-Camp No. 7 in Port Allen for a feature story for the State-Times, The Advocate's then-afternoon sister newspaper. "The swish-swish of the ...

During World War II, Iowa housed over 25,000 German prisoners of war to address farm labor shortages. Initial fear and skepticism from Iowans gave way to community and trust as they worked alongside ...

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.

The Civil War isn’t what it used to be. Instead of the romantic version, a “good war” of courage and glory, that emerged in the conflict’s immediate aftermath, or the post-civil-rights-era emphasis on ...

Japanese prisoners of war arrived at Camp Clarinda in Iowa in early 1945, meeting a tense and hostile reception. Unlike German POWs who were integrated into some communities, Japanese prisoners faced ...