What does it take to be labeled a war criminal? For Henry Wirz, commanding one of the worst POW camps in history was enough.

The Santa Cruz Valley Historical Society recently unveiled a new historical marker commemorating Camp Continental, a German ...

On Jan. 27, 1945, ten thousand Allied POWs stepped off from Stalag Luft III in Żagań as the Nazi regime began forcibly ...

Author, historian and Vietnam veteran Marc Leepson's new book, "The Unlikely War Hero: A Vietnam War POW's Story of Courage ...

Doug Hegdahl, the subject of Marc Leepson’s “The Unlikely War Hero: A Vietnam War POW’s Story of Courage and Resilience in ...

Stephen Hubbard was a wanderer. But when he moved to Ukraine, the war brought arrest, torture and imprisonment. He turns 73 ...

Members of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War gathered at the Clark County Historical Museum recently to commemorate the installment of new officers for the General John W. Sprague C ...

An American soldier ... Several prisoners of war who returned during Operation Big Switch said Travers was also a prisoner of war at Prisoner of War Camp #1, the agency reported.

The International Committee of the Red Cross is also entitled to access POW camps and check on prisoner welfare. Russia and Ukraine have swapped POWs on a number of occasions throughout the war, most ...