What does it take to be labeled a war criminal? For Henry Wirz, commanding one of the worst POW camps in history was enough. But was he truly responsible for the horrors of Andersonville, or was he ...

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

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

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

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

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.

On Dec. 14, 1944, at the Palawan Prisoner of War ... War II Rangers took to reach their objective all those years ago, ending at the Cabanatuan American Memorial, where the infamous POW camp ...

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

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 ...