In 1942, the British asked America to hold 250,000 German soldiers they had captured in North Africa. 22,000 of them ended up in the Sooner State. What was life like behind the barbed wire in places ...

Grunewald significantly enhances understandings of the fate of Germans captured by the Soviet Union during World War II. Her archival research demonstrates that the Soviets saw the German prisoners of ...

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 ...

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.

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This collection consists of microfilm copies of documents relating to research and development work conducted by the Ordnance Office of the German ...

In airborne operations vaster than those of D-Day, Gen. Eisenhower committed his parachute and glider troops to action in Holland yesterday "or the first time under their new unified command, while ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Once Mydans was freed from a Japanese ...

Editor's note: This story originally appeared in 2017. When Italian soldiers wanted to be caught by American forces during World War II, they would play cards. The loser of the card game had to crawl ...