Author William Geroux finds a compelling true-crime angle in a series of camp murders, as well as international intrigue in a ...

Army 1st Lt. Jack Treadwell single-handedly took out six German pillboxes and captured 18 enemy soldiers during World War II.

The U.S. hoped that if German POWs were treated humanely, Germany would reciprocate in its treatment of American prisoners.

Lester Schrenk, a former U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 gunner who was shot down over Denmark in February 1944, spent about half ...

With the end of World War Two, new problems emerged like what to do about the tens of millions of land and sea mines left over from the conflict? Elon Musk goes behind-the-scenes at DOGE, unveils ...

There’s little indication from looking at it that a pillar in a cemetery in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was erected by representatives of Nazi Germany on the eve of World War II. It bears no swastika. Its ...

On 24 March 1944, 76 allied officers broke out of a German prisoner-of-war camp, Stalag Luft III – a mission that was memorialised in a classic film, The Great Escape. In 1977, a key member of ...

In 1942, Sigmund Rascher and others conducted high-altitude experiments on prisoners at Dachau. Eager to find out how best to save German pilots forced to eject at high altitude, they placed ...