As the USS Borie prepared to ram a German U-boat in the early morning hours of Nov. 1, 1943, the sailors on the Navy destroyer braced for impact. Turbulent waters in the north Atlantic Ocean negated ...

The prisoners of Sub-Camp No. 7 helped with the local sugar cane fields and interacted with community members. Some even ...

The May 1943 secret operation by Britain's Bomber Command involved a groundbreaking, high-risk mission to destroy German dams in the Ruhr Area using a new 'Bouncing Bomb'. Separately, the 'battle' of ...

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 ...

TO FIND OUT THE WAR ENDED FOR THEM NOT OVER THERE BUT OVER HERE. IT WAS WORLD WAR TWO AND THESE GUYS WERE THE ENEMY. ON MAY 13, 1940 THREE ALL AXES ARE MISTREATED. KRIS: GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR, ...

PAINTINGS DONE BY GERMAN POWS. WAS THE LEGACY AND STORIES THEY CARRY WILL CONTINUE TO ENRICH AND EDUCATE GENERATIONS FOR YEARS TO COME. THIS IS A SCENE WE BELIEVE, FROM THE ALPS. THE FOUR PAINTINGS ...

Editor's note: We Are Aiken County is a series of articles that will run through March 16. It celebrates people, places and events that shaped Aiken County. On a plot of ground across from Aiken High ...

Installation view Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55 at the Harvard Art Museums (all installation images courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums) Installation view Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55 at the ...