Foreign women linked to the Islamic State group in a Syrian camp are hoping for amnesty after a government offensive weakened the Kurdish-led forces guarding them.

As the war ended in 1945, thousands of Waffen SS men attempted to disappear among ordinary soldiers and civilians. Soviet ...

As World War II reshaped rural Iowa, German prisoners of war became an essential labor force, and, in some cases, unexpected ...

When Brian Stonehouse, a British spy posing as an artist, was freed from the concentration camp, he made drawings to document ...

In his celebrated mea culpa, the German pastor Martin Niemöller blamed his failure to speak out against the Nazis on ...

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 ...

His first feature-length movie, in 1971, was called his country’s “Stonewall moment,” for jump-starting a gay-rights movement. He became a leading voice of it. By Clay Risen Rosa von Praunheim, an ...

The U-505 submarine served 12 patrols and sank eight enemy boats before the US Navy captured it. The U-boat is now on display at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science and Industry. Visitors can walk ...

NINOSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Baumkuchen originated in Germany but has become a wildly popular sweet in Japan, where a prisoner of war on a small western island started making the treat that has thrived in ...

July 27th, 1945 the war in Europe was over, but for one Texas farmer, another battle had just begun. His enemy wasn’t a soldier, it was a dead tractor. With his wheat days away from ruin and the skies ...

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 ...

Baumkuchen, a confectionery with German origins, has found an unexpected home in Japan, where it is now a wildly popular sweet. Its introduction to the country traces back to a prisoner of war on a ...