How Iowa farmers fed German prisoners and found common ground in WWII

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

The World War II prisoners who became part of Iowa communities

During World War II, thousands of German prisoners of war were held in Iowa, where work on farms led to some unexpected bonds ...
The Advocate

German POWs not only were imprisoned in Port Allen during WWII but learned to chop sugarcane

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 ...
Yahoo

At the end of WWII, Milwaukee was home to a prisoner of war camp

During World War II, the United States set up hundreds of prisoner of war camps in the U.S., including nearly 40 in Wisconsin. But it wasn't till nearly the end of the war that POWs were sent to the ...
Newsday

During WWII, Long Island POW camps taught American values to Nazi soldiers

Melanie Cardone-Leathers, a librarian at Longwood Public Library in Middle Island, was conducting an inventory of historical documents in 2010 when a discolored file box containing photographs and ...