Other POWs learned about his collaboration. He was beaten and hanged in a shower room. Horst Gunther was German soldier in a POW camp in South Carolina when he was found hanging from a tree.

In May 1945, nearly 5 years after his capture, Corporal Jack Soden arrived back to his home in High Wycombe. At that time his family were living at 224 Desborough Road. With him he had his “War-time ...

In 2001 Neitzel discovered a new source for researching the Third Reich and its military machine: secretly recorded conversations of German prisoners of war (POWs) in British and American captivity.

The fighters provided crucial air support for the D-Day landings and many were adapted to be fighter-bombers to carry out attacks on German ground forces. WW2: What was the secret to winning the ...

These men, members of Erwin Rommel’s vaunted but humiliatingly defeated Afrika Korps, were among nearly 400,000 German POWs who were summarily shipped across the Atlantic, then dispersed to more ...

75 years ago, on August 5, 1944, Cowra in the central west of New South Wales was the scene of the largest breakout from a prison camp during the Second World War. It was also one of the bloodiest ...