After the policy forbidding German Jews from serving in the U.S. military was changed during World War II, Pins joined ... more than 3,400 prisoners (including 15 Nazi generals) were processed ...

In 352 B.C., Philip of Macedon ordered the drowning of 3,000 prisoners ... War I resulted in the treaty’s being amended at the 38-nation Third Geneva Convention in 1929. But in World War II ...

Donnie MacRae grew up in Gairloch and was a talented tailor Scottish soldier Donnie MacRae died as a German prisoner of war during World War Two - but it was not until almost 80 years later that ...

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 ...

During World War II, 22,000 captured German soldiers ... And what drove these German prisoners to murder one of their own? Find out on this episode of Back in Time. In 1942, the British asked ...

Eighty years ago on January 27, 1945, soldiers from Russia's Red Army entered the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland and ...

When the Red Army liberated the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27, 1945, the ...

DNA technology proved that Sebastopol’s Yuen Hop was one of three American airmen executed by the SS, then buried in an unmarked German grave in 1944.

From a crumbling pill box in the UK to a derelict rail line in Hawaii, these are the abandoned World War II places that the ...

There is no doubt that Maj. Gen. Edward P. King, Jr. — a U.S. Army commander who surrendered to the Japanese Army on the Bataan peninsula in the Philippines in May 1942 and subsequently spent over ...

Seeing the face of Ukrainian soldier Maksym Kolesnykov light up with joy over an apple upon his release from Russian captivity last February was enough to bring anyone to tears. During nearly a year ...

The Auschwitz martyrs’ legacy of holiness continues to be a source of inspiration for Catholics worldwide. Here are several ...