World War II saw events like the Holocaust and the bombings in Japan that are today found in countless history textbooks and ...

Northern Minnesota is enjoying a tourism boom like never before this year. In Duluth, tourism tax revenue is up 9.4 percent over the same period last year. Winona and the Rochester A’s won their ...

A group of POWs staged a sit-down strike at local processing plants. One POW, Heinz Golze, escaped from camps five times. Young women working alongside POWs were said to be "very familiar" with them.

One of the ironies of the Minnesota home front during World War II is that while so many local men were in Europe fighting Nazi Germany, German prisoners of war held here were put to work in the state ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A former hospital building at the Crossville POW camp at the Clyde York 4-H Center. Photograph courtesy of 'Tennessee History for ...

During World War II, hundreds of German and Italian prisoners of war were held in camps throughout the Red River Valley, Kenneth Dawes, a retired UND professor, told a group of more than 100 who ...

In January 1945, in a German POW camp, a U.S. soldier named Roddie Edmonds defied the threat of death to protect the Jewish troops under his command. Seventy years later, he's being recognized for his ...

Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Publisher's Note; Introduction; List of Abbreviations; Part I ...