Escaping the festering hostilities in Germany against Jews in the 1930s, Rudy Pins kissed his father goodbye and boarded a train. Then 12 years old, Pins -- bound for a new life in the United ...

Fort Leavenworth? They knew they would be punished; they didn’t expect to be executed. But during the summer of 1945, that is what happened to 14 German prisoners of war held in the U.S ...

There are dozens of German POW gravesites at Fort Custer, because at one point, the site had thousands of German POWs. After the war, some returned to Germany but came back to the United States.