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.

Texas used to be dotted with prisoner-of-war camps in World War II, a temporary home to thousands of Germans and Italians. Texas had far more prisoners than any other state, mainly because the first ...

In December 1944, German POWs staged the largest escape from a U.S. prison camp during World War II. Using a hidden tunnel, 25 prisoners slipped out into the Arizona desert on Christmas Eve. Their ...

The number of POWs across the state increased dramatically, from 800 in 1943 to 5,800 in 1945, said Dietz, a published historian who is working on a book about World War II. In January 1945, there ...